HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell said there's time to build up the health care provider network for the new state plan for the uninsured, which has been criticized for not having enough hospitals and doctors.With 24 people enrolled as of Aug. 1, Rell said Monday the next wave of Charter Oak Health Care Plan enrollees won't be needing access to doctors and hospitals until Sept. 1.
"We have all of that time in there to bring hospitals on and the doctors come with those hospitals and we continue to sign them up daily," she told reporters following the State Bond Commission meeting.
Department of Social Services said a second hospital, St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, has joined the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, in providing care to Charter Oak enrollees. The three insurers -- Aetna Better Health, UnitedHealth Group's Americhoice and Community Health Network -- offering the plan are in discussions with other hospitals and expect more to enroll shortly, a DSS spokesman said.
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