The University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) has for many years been Connecticut’s problem prodigal child. The Democratic dominated General Assembly approved Governor Dannel Malloy’s then unbalanced budget the first week of May. And although it took two and a half months to finalize a budget that some still consider out of balance, the Malloy administration was never-the-less able to find nearly $1 billion to invest in a UCHC building program , not the first time the state has thrown money into the black hole in Farmington . This year’s tax and spending budget allowed the administration to reap an artificial surplus of about $1 billion. Call it a make work for unions slush fund or a political hedge fund, the extra billion may be used much in the way that Tammany Hall of blessed memory used “walking around money” to purchase affection and votes. Agents of the Malloy administration dickered for months with SEBAC, a coalition of unions authorized to negotiate contracts with the...
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