Urgent Action Needed!

Health insurance companies are engaging in unchecked vertical integration, consolidation and self-dealing --and distorting our entire healthcare system in their quest for ever-increasing profits.

Yet they are AGAIN asking the Connecticut Insurance Department (CID) for permission to raise rates in 2027 for plans in the individual and small group markets, both on and off the state-sponsored exchange-- seeking increases as high as 25.2%.

UnitedHealthcare, seeking to raise rates an average of 18.9%, has become the fourth largest company in the world. It employs 10% of all doctors in the country and spent $5.5 billion in 2025 just buying back share of its own stock.

• Identifying and controlling the underlying costs of care and analyzes the assumptions built in to the base rates, and

• Calling out and addressing vertical integration and self-dealing.

• A forensic audit looking at how they benefit these tactics, and limits on how these costs can be passed along.

These steps are needed to control prices, limit profiteering, address the perverse incentives of insurance industry self-dealing, and allow residents of Connecticut to access quality and affordable healthcare.

Let’s be clear: Healthcare costs in America are out of control. We must make healthcare affordable for all people , lower prices, and give people real choices and access to quality care.

AND, CID must reject these latest rate hikes!

The CID is accepting comments on requested rate hikes until a decision is made.

Write to CID today!