New insurance program
Connecticut’s healthcare system is home to best-in-class hospitals and major players in the insurance industry. This is great news, but we still have work to do for our system to thrive. Importantly, we must ensure each and every one of you can access affordable, high-quality healthcare with coverage that meets your needs. The good news is that you might be eligible for free healthcare coverage through a new program, and I wanted to make sure that my neighbors in West Haven heard about it from me.
My name is Lou Gianquinto, and I am president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut. We are committed to simplifying healthcare and given my roots in West Haven, I wanted to reach out to share information about Covered Connecticut, a new health program that offers free coverage to eligible families.
If you qualify, the State of Connecticut will pay your part of the monthly premium for a health plan. They will also pay all your cost-sharing amounts (deductibles, copays, coinsurance, and maximum out-of-pocket costs). Anthem is proud to offer a plan as part of this program. The Anthem plan you can choose is the Silver PPO Standard Pathway health plan, which gives you access to a large network of doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare professionals, as well as benefits such as access to virtual primary care through our SydneySM Health app.
The enrollment period will open by July 1, 2022, and this year, the Covered Connecticut program will include expanded benefits such as dental coverage and rides to the doctor at no cost.
To find out if you’re eligible for free coverage through Covered Connecticut, visit accesshealthct.com, contact a broker for free, or call Access Health CT at 855-805-4325, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you qualify, tell them you want the Anthem Silver plan – it would be our pleasure to serve you.
In good health,
Lou Gianquinto
President, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Connecticut
Proprietor offers services
I bring to your attention a service, which is so valuable and difficult to find, that I believe it merits disclosure to your readership. At 541 Campbell Ave., less than one-half block from Cit Hall there is a computer, iPhone and repair shop I have found invaluable.
Like many people I am at a loss when dealing with modern technology – A am baffled by much of it, generation gapped and intimidated.
Functioning as a free-of-charge consultant more than as a proprietor, George Ghaly explains the problems, fixes it on the spot where possible, and when he has no choice will order new parts with little or no mark-up. I am not aware of any other computer and iPhone repair shop in West Haven, and certainly none with a proprietor as fair and patient as George.
Ellis Ratner
Subtle messages
West Haveners have been instructed to separate out their grass clippings and yard waste from their regular rubbish, put it into large paper bags, designed for that purpose, and place it at the curb on the day or night before their regular rubbish and recyclables collections.
In an attempt to be a good citizen, I and most others throughout at least West Haven’s West Shore area, seem to do just that. The bags, however, never seem to get picked up, and, instead, languish for sometimes an entire week or more allowing the organic matter therein to decompose and concomitantly breakdown the integrity of the paper bags as well as to look rather unsightly along the city streets.
The subtle message, of course, is to forget about putting your grass cuttings and yard wastes into the paper bags that you have purchased, and, instead, co-mingle them with your regular household rubbish and garbage, and they will be picked up by the city’s contractors in a timely manner, and go to some landfill or trash-to-energy plant, instead of West Haven’s compost site.
Ralph Lawson III