New York’s governor is looking to cut $2.5 Billion from the budget and he wants to take it out of Medicaid. He’s assembled a team of 21 health care industry and government officials who will be figuring out how to slash the numbers. Rockland and Westchester state senator David Carlucci is concerned the costs will be shifted to local municipalities…
More than 51% of Rockland’s property tax levy goes toward Medicaid already, and County Executive Ed Day says if the governor gets his way, property taxes in the county could go way up…
Cuomo has blamed the minimum wage increase to $15 and higher costs in home care for the elderly as some of the reasons for higher Medicaid spending.