In a world of uncertainties, our state’s governors can count on one constant: the relentless burden of the University of Connecticut Health Center.

The Farmington hospital has been losing vast amounts of money for decades. Gov. Ned Lamont, our first governor with a graduate degree in business, has spent years trying without success to get a large hospital network to takeover UConn Health.

A new, novel, and bad idea continues to gain momentum: purchase three money losing hospitals with UConn Health. Abracadabra, four hospitals that cannot on make money on their own will together begin to spin out profits with a $400 million investment from the public. The three hospitals, Bristol, Day Kimball in Putnam, and Waterbury are in a variety of dire straits. Waterbury, one of three hospita

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