Amann: Let Arnold Grab the Headlines

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State House Speaker Jim Amann, addressing a business crowd in New Haven, lowered expectations that Connecticut would follow states like California in trying to pass universal health care this year. He said he’d rather do it right than compete for headlines.However Amann did guarantee that within two months the legislature will pass a plan to cover all 71,000 uninsured children in Connecticut, 66 percent of whom are Latino.