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Hochul's mad Medicaid spending woos health honchos on OUR dime
Hochul's Medicaid splurge isn't buying better care for New Yorkers; it's buying her a reprieve from the hospital lobby's attack ads.
Hochul bows to health-worker union's $12B senior-care power play that could bust NY's budget
Gov. Hochul’s overhaul of the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program reached a milestone last week when she named a Georgia-based company as the winning bidder to be the program’s statewide...
Andrew Cuomo is still fibbing about his deadly COVID nursing-home order
Four years after ordering COVID-positive patients into New York nursing homes, Andrew Cuomo's excuses for that fateful mistake have gotten older but no better.
NY must prune its bloated Medicaid program — and focus on improving low-quality care
The coronavirus pandemic exposed a fundamental imbalance in New York’s approach to health policy: Albany spends too much money on its bloated Medicaid plan but neglects the public-health programs that...
Kathy Hochul's abuse of power is a NY state 'emergency'
Ho hum. Another month, another “emergency” in Kathy Hochul’s New York.
Hochul's Health Dept. continues Cuomo-era stall in releasing nursing-home COVID info
Despite Gov. Kathy Hochul’s promises of transparency, the state Health Department continues responding to requests for pandemic data with stalling tactics
Cuomo's 'blame Trump' story for the nursing-home coverup doesn't remotely add up
To justify deceiving the world about the scale of the pandemic in New York’s nursing homes, Gov. Cuomo has turned to a familiar scapegoat: Donald Trump. The story doesn’t add...
As coronavirus rages, Albany's health-care taxes are simply inexcusable
Northern New York farmer Russ Finley is one of the millions of Americans who make do without health insurance. So when a tree limb fell on his head last month,...
Andrew Cuomo's cure for New York's Medicaid mess: Blame everyone else
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s response to the Empire State’s big Medicaid deficit, as laid out in his budget presentation on Tuesday, was a disappointing mix of delay, deflection and delegation. In...
New York's $4B Medicaid mess shows why push for single payer is insane
The Cuomo administration recently revealed that New York’s Medicaid program is running over budget by an astonishing 16 percent, or $4 billion, even though enrollment is flat and medical inflation...
Blame Cuomo for New York’s Medicaid crisis
When it comes to New York’s latest Medicaid mess, the buck stops with Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Or rather, the buck should stop with him, if only he would enforce his...
Single-payer would be death of NY’s best hospitals
The debate about a proposed single-payer health plan for New York has mostly focused on what it would cost (between $92 billion and $226 billion per year, according to various...
Cuomo’s cynical abuse of a crisis that didn’t come
The past year has been a roller-coaster for New York’s health-care system, as Congress tried repeatedly to scale back Medicaid and dismantle the Affordable Care Act while allowing other health-related...
How New York's 'indigent' health aid goes to the rich
The award for the most deceptive name in New York state government goes to an obscure but expensive program called the “Indigent Care Pool.” Each year, this pool distributes upwards...
NY Dems' lunatic push for single-payer health care
Albany Democrats never got the memo that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. They’re peddling a universal health-care plan they claim would not only cost nothing more, but...
New York is addicted to health taxes
New York, you have a problem. You’re addicted to health taxes. The habit hooked the state government 20 years ago this month, when the Health Care Reform Act took effect....
Albany shares blame in the death of an ObamaCare co-op
The rapid rise and costly fall of Health Republic Insurance of New York, the largest nonprofit health insurance “co-op” established under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, is a cautionary tale....