Friend of Angelo Chris Dodd gets $100 million for UCONN hospital in Senate health care bill!

chris-dodd2This must be the so called “mystery hospital” I mentoned earlier. Chris Dodd, aka Friend of Angelo got another sweetheart deal. This is a $100 million addition to the Senate health care bill for Chris Dodd is $100 million for construction of a University of Connecticut Hospital! AP reports:

WASHINGTON — A $100 million item for construction of a university hospital was inserted in the Senate health care bill at the request of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who faces a difficult re-election campaign, his office said Sunday night.

The legislation leaves it up to the Health and Human Services Department to decide where the money should be spent, although spokesman Bryan DeAngelis said Dodd hopes to claim it for the University of Connecticut.

The provision is included in a 383-page series of changes to the health care bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., outlined Saturday. Scattered throughout are numerous items sought by individual lawmakers, many of them directing money explicitly to programs or projects in their home states.

The one sought by Dodd provides $100 million for “a health care facility that provides research, inpatient tertiary care, or outpatient clinical services.” It must be affiliated with an academic health center at a public research university in the United States “that contains a State’s sole public academic medical and dental school.”

The money can cover a maximum of 40 percent of the facility’s construction costs.

Based on the criteria set out on the bill, it appeared that state-affiliated hospitals in about a dozen states could compete for the funds.


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December 20, 2009 · Filed Under Chris Dodd

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