CT failed to reform its health care oversight. Here’s why it matters.

Lofty plans for a major redesign of Connecticut’s “certificate of need” program” — a regulatory effort that requires providers to obtain state approval before making substantial changes in the health care sector — dissolved in the final weeks of the legislative session as health officials failed to reach consensus with state leaders and differing views of how the program should evolve took hold.

None of the four bills aimed at overhauling certificate of need had come up for a vote when the session concluded May 8...