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08/24/2026

08/24/2026

Health insurers are asking Connecticut families to pay even more, but where is all that money already going? 📖 Read the report to find out: bit.ly/hcgreed2026
Now insurers are asking Connecticut regulators to approve rate increases as high as 25.2%.

📣 SPEAK UP NOW BEFORE THE CT INSURANCE DEPARTMENT MAKES ITS DECISION

Send a letter to CID TODAY and demand that they reject unjustified rate hikes: https://bit.ly/ratehike2026

Healthcare dollars should pay for healthcare, not bigger profits, richer executives, and rewards for shareholders!

08/12/2026

The CT Insurance Department (CID) gets ready to hear from the public August 26 about requested rate hikes. Cigna no longer sells plans on the exchange. However, United Health - now the world's fourth-largest company by revenue – is seeking to increase rates increases of up to 23.3%

David Cordani transformed Cigna into a $275 billion health care giant. His 17-year tenure mirrored the rise of PBMs, corporate consolidation and mounting legal scrutiny.

08/07/2026

It’s Day 3 of Primary in-person Early Voting in Connecticut! We are almost at the halfway point, with 7 days of Early Voting. So, if your town is having a primary, don’t wait to have your voice heard! Polls are open today from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. Check out who’s on your local ballot at https://portal.ct.gov/sots/election-services/town-ballots/ballots, then find your early voting location at MyVote.CT.gov.

08/07/2026

A state watchdog is demanding an ethics investigation into the regulators who decide what you pay for power.

08/05/2026

“We need universal healthcare. Let’s stop messing around.” - Tom Swan, CCAG

The message from the advocates, state officials and elected leaders who gathered at the Legislative Office Building Thursday morning was clear: changes are coming to Medicaid/HUSKY, so the state needs to step in and residents need to be ready to advocate for themselves.

08/04/2026

07/27/2026

Join us Thursday at 11am at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford for a celebration of HUSKY health coverage, and for a call to action! 🐾💙🏥

We will celebrate HUSKY in Connecticut, share information to help people on HUSKY make sure they have the information they need to help retain coverage, and call on leaders to protect the HUSKY we all know and love.

07/23/2026

We were so saddened to hear of CCAG Alum Bruce Ballenger's passing. In 1976, Bruce began work at the Connecticut Citizen Action Group (CCAG), where he met Karen Kelley, the love of his life. Their dedication to community organizing lives on to this day.

Bruce was the Communications Director of CCAG from 76 to 79 and worked most closely with Marc Caplan, Julie Mannarino, Alden Meyer, Sue Garten, and Mary Sherwin, not to mention Manchester organizer Karen Kelley. Number one target ​at that time was Northeast Utilities​.

Bruce leaves behind an indelible legacy: a dedicated teacher who never stopped learning, a loving friend and devoted husband and father, and a curious, brilliant man who believed everyone had a story worth telling.

​We wish all of his family and friends peace and we are grateful to them for sharing Bruce with all of us and the world.

https://www.courant.com/obituaries/bruce-pope-ballenger-boise-id/

07/23/2026

"Since engaging in a well-funded bullying campaign to run the lead regulator at the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority out of town, Connecticut’s monopoly utility corporations are now on the prowl for more of our hard-earned money to pad their record high profits." Tom Swan Executive Director of CCAG - CCAG - Connecticut Citizen Action Group

Ratepayers cannot afford, nor should we allow, rate cases to be secreted away and decided under undue influence, bullying and threat of reprisal.