Over the past quarter century, privatization of formerly governmental activities has made it increasingly difficult for the public to use freedom of information laws to learn what its tax dollars actually do.
But that trend may be in for an historic change if Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Commission on Dec. 14 adopts a decision making managed care organizations accountable under the FOIA. The commission is expected to rule that day, whether to accept the findings of hearing officer Victor Perpetua that four MCOs administering the state’s Husky program for Medicaid are performing government functions, and thus are subject to the FOIA. The program supplies health care to 310,000 low-income children and their parents.
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