A local version of the national fight over whether to create a new, government-backed health-insurance plan took a dramatic turn yesterday: Democrats in the Connecticut Legislature overrode a veto from the Republican governor, putting the state on a path to create a new public plan open to everyone. A board will create the outlines of the new program, which is supposed to launch in 2012, the Hartford Courant notes . Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed the bill because of the cost, which she said could be $1 billion a

year . Both supporters and opponents of the bill can look next door to Massachusetts for ammunition: That state’s universal health-care insurance plan has significantly reduced the number of people without insurance, but the cost has been high . The Legislature didn’t quite have enough votes to override the governor’s veto on a separate bill that would have allowed small businesses, municipalities and nonprofit groups to join the state’s big health insurance pool. Photo: iStockphoto

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Connecticut Moves Toward Public Health-Insurance Plan