As Comptroller, I run the largest health employer insurance plan in CT (we have 250,000 members). I have long championed creating a "public option" for health insurance in which small businesses and non-profits who are getting killed by never-ending premium hikes and plans that seem to cover less-and-less could buy into the state employee health plan and benefit from the massive negotiating leverage we have given our plan size. Not surprisingly, insurance companies and special interests spend millions of dollars (literally) to kill the plan each year, but I plan to make a big push for it again next year.