“84 % ?” CT Senate GOP Statement on Office of Health Strategy Spending Vast Majority of Budget on Consultants

Sen. Heather Somers, Sen. Jeff Gordon and Sen. Stephen Harding today issued the following statement regarding the revelation that the state Office of Health Strategy (OHS) spends 84% of its budget on consultants. (https://insideinvestigator.org/office-of-health-strategy-spends-84-of-budget-on-consultants/)

“84 %?

84 % of the taxpayers’ money to this state agency gets contracted out?

Meanwhile, OHS demands a larger and larger annual budget as healthcare spending benchmarks are blown through year after year.

We need transparency and accountability as to how former OHS Executive Director Dierdre Gifford was running the agency.

We will be asking the bipartisan state auditors to review these questionable practices so that reforms can be enacted.”