Over the last year Connecticut state government’s unfunded pension and retiree insurance obligations have been authoritatively estimated at between $60 billion and $80 billion. But last week a study for the Connecticut Council of Municipalities, written by Gordon Hamlin of Pro Bono Public Pensions, put the total at $112 billion.
Medicaid expansion was a key component of ObamaCare. In 2014 when the expansion started, the feds stopped doing audits of states’ Medicaid eligibility determinations. The Obama administration’s goal was to build public support for the new law by signing up as many people as possible. Now, after a four-year hiatus, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have begun auditing program eligibility again. According to a report released Monday, the audits found “high levels of observed eligibility errors.”
Mr. Blase was a special assistant to President Trump at the National Economic Council, 2017-19. He is president of Blase Policy Strategies. Mr. Yelowitz is an economics professor at the University of Kentucky and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
Can Ned Lamont really be as bad a governor as was suggested by last week's Sacred Heart University poll, with only 24 percent of respondents approving his performance, 47 percent disapproving, and another 29 percent having no opinion?