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Hochul bows to health-worker union's $12B senior-care power play that could bust NY's budget
October 8, 2024 | 8:37pmGov. Hochul’s overhaul of the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program reached a milestone last week wh🌜en she named a Georgia-based company as the winning bidder to be the program’s statewide...
Andrew Cuomo is stไill fibbing about his deadly COVID nursing-home order
June 14, 2024 | 6:29pmFour years after ordering COVID-po♔sitive patients into New York nursing homes, Andrew Cuomo's excuses for that fateful mistake have gott𓃲en older but no better.
NY must prune its bloated Medicaid program — a🎃nd focus on improving low-qu𝕴ality care
December 27, 2022 | 9:38pmThe coronavirus pandemic exposed a fundamental imbalance in New York’s approach to health policy: Albany spends too much money on its bloated Medica🅷id plan but neglects the public-health programs that...
Kathy Hochul's abuse of power is a NY state 'emergency'
August 17, 2022 | 10:58pmHo hum. Another month, another “em🌜ergency” in Kathy 𒉰Hochul’s New York.
Hochul's Health Dept. continues Cuomo-era stall in releasing nursing-home COVID info
October 25, 2021 | 7:47pmDespite Gov. Kathy Ho﷽chul’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
February 12, 2021 | 5:50pmTo justify deceiving the world about the scale of the pandemic in New York’s nursing homes, Gov. Cuomo has turned to a familiarജ scapegoat: Donald Trump. The story doesn’t add...
As coronavirus rages, Albany's health-care taxes are simply inexcusable
March 29, 2020 | 7:44pmNorthern New York farmer Russ Finley is one of the millions of Americans who make do without health insurance. So wh🦩en a tree limb fell on his head last month,...
Andrew Cuomo's cure for New York's Medicaid mess: Blame everyone else
January 22, 2020 | 8:36pmGov. Andrew Cuomo’s response 𝕴to 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
December 8, 2019 | 9:34pmThe Cuomo administration recently revealed that New Yor💯k’s Medicaid program is running over bu🗹dget by an astonishing 16 percent, or $4 billion, even though enrollment is flat and medical inflation...
☂ Blame C𒈔uomo for New York’s Medicaid crisis
October 16, 2019 | 8:17pmWhen it comes to New York’s latest Medicaid ✃mess, the buck stops with Gov.ꦑ 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 🍨
October 21, 2018 | 7:54pmT🌳he debate about a proposed single-payer health plan for New York has mostly focused on what itꦑ would cost (between $92 billion and $226 billion per year, according to various...
⛎ Cuomo’s cynical abuse 💟of a crisis that didn’t come
February 14, 2018 | 8:15pmThe past year has be🎉en a roller-coaster for New York’s health-care system, as Congress tried repeatedly to scale back Me✃dicaid and dismantle the Affordable Care Act while allowing other health-related...
How New York's 'indigent' health aid goes to the rich
September 21, 2017 | 7:18pmThe 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 di𓆏stributes upwards... 𒁏
NY Dems' lunatic push for single-payer health care
May 22, 2017 | 10:36pmAlbany 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 🐼m▨ore, but...
New York is addicted to hea🐷lth taxes
January 12, 2017 | 7:50pmNew 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 s𝔍hares blame in the death of an ObamaCare co-op
December 21, 2015 | 8:13pmThe rapid rise and costly fall of𒁏 Health Republic Insurance of New York, the largest nonprofit health insurance “co-op” established under Presid🐭ent Obama’s Affordable Care Act, is a cautionary tale....