Amy Stefanowski joined Gary Byron on the air to talk about her project that she started to help out small businesses and people that are working in the medical field, the Gift Card Project!
https://thegiftcardproject.com/
CT State Comptroller Sean Scanlon came by the Gary Byron show to talk about the state's finances, as well as the fiscal guardrails. What does a comptroller do? How is different from the Secretary of State? Plus, Sean takes questions from the listeners.
A proposed bill PB317 has been written by CT State Senator Eric Berthel which proposes to require insurance companies to cover bariatric surgery benefits. Despite coverage by Medicaid and Medicare in our state, the majority of private insurance plans do not offer bariatric surgery as a benefit. When the ACS was passed by Obama, the essential benefit in Connecticut was based on the current coverage by our biggest HMO: Connecticare. As a result Obamacare has NOT covered bariatric surgery. Most insurers do not and have not been forced to offer the benefit. Many of our patients have switched to Medicaid for coverage despite having good jobs. This has caused a burden to taxpayers. State employees also have bariatric surgery coverage. Darren Tishler spoke to Brad and Paul about it
State Senator Len Fasano joined Brad Davis and Gary Byron to talk about FASTR CT and answer calls!
