The healthcare and health insurance industries make up a powerful special interest group at the state Capitol.
In fact, so far during the 2025-26 reporting period, six of the top 13 lobbying organizations are health care or health insurance related.
That includes the Connecticut Association of Health Plans, which has spent $238,370.20 on lobbying the state General Assembly, according to the Office of State Ethics. That’s the 13th-largest amount spent on lobbying by any organization.
The association is led by Executive Director Susan Halpin, who is also a lobbyist with Hartford law firm Robinson+Cole.
In 2018, Halpin was named co-principal of the Robinson+Cole Government Relations Group leading the state team of lobbyists.
Her role was elevated in 2023, when Robinson+Cole launched a new subsidiary to formalize its government relations group. The CT Government Relations Group of Robinson+Cole LLC is led by Halpin and Brooks Campion, who are co-principals.
Halpin has direct responsibility for all healthcare and insurance lobbying matters, according to the firm.
Early in her career, she worked in the state Capitol as a Senate aide, according to her bio page. She then joined the lobbying group Duffy/Stover Inc., which became part of Robinson+Cole in 1991.