From nursing home operators to the mentally ill, more than 300 people spoke at the state Capitol complex Wednesday on a snowy day to protest Rell's proposed budget cuts on a wide variety of services.
The crowd was so large that the budget-writing appropriations committee took the rare' [...]
From hospital administrators and mayors to community action agencies and nursing home operators, citizens are speaking out strongly against Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's proposed budget cuts that would close the state's ongoing fiscal gap.
More than 250 people have signed up to speak Wednesday at a public hearing against the cuts that [...]
The state's nursing homes are highly concerned about Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's proposal to cut Medicaid rates for nursing homes by 2 percent.
The cuts, however, cannot be made with approval by the Democratic-controlled legislature. Matthew Barrett, a former state employee who now serves as executive vice president of the [...]
