Governor Andrew Cuomo’s $178.6 billion budget proposal, which he released Tuesday, also includes his plans of how to deal with the state’s $6 billion dollar budget deficit.
Medicaid
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Cuomo’s blame game
Local leaders say they’re sick of the governor pointing the finger at them for high property taxes
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Monroe County’s Obamacare benefit
Heading into 2014 budget preparations, Monroe County officials anticipated a 1 percent increase in Medicaid costs. Instead, the county should see a decrease. During last night’s County Legislature Human Services Committee meeting, officials acknowledged that the decrease is due to the federal Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The benefit to the county’s 2014 […]
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Democrats fell off the cliff and can’t get up
Some Democrats are crowing about the fiscal cliff outcome, and criticizing Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner for not having control of his party. Yesterday, many bloggers and political pundits cast President Obama as the clear winner in the fiscal cliff showdown. But as Obama signed the new tax bill into law yesterday morning, […]
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Caring for caregivers
Some of my favorite childhood memories involve hiking in the Genesee River bed near Mt. Morris with my mother. We would spend hours looking for arrowheads, studying rock formations, or tracking deer. I still get a chuckle when I’m reminded of how unconventional she was compared to my friends’ mothers. Now much of my time […]
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So long, intercept
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks says the sales tax intercept has saved the county $30 million in Medicaid costs since it took effect in 2008, but now she wants to repeal it. The intercept, controversial when it was introduced, is an arrangement where the state takes approximately half of the county’s sales tax revenue and, […]
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Our real crisis
The big Social Security crisis the Bush administration is keeping in the headlines is serving as a big distraction. The real crisis resides with Medicare/Medicaid. Yet the administration hardly ever mentions this fact. We wonder why. Given the mendacity of Bush and the mentality of his top advisors, it should not be hard to figure […]
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Cut the Medicaid budget? It won’t be easy
Can New YorkState really stop spending so much money on Medicaid? And do it without hurting people? Or will the money we save now just cost us more in the end? Once again, the governor is promising to do something about Medicaid. In his budget address last week he warned, again, that Medicaid […]
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Cut the Medicaid budget? It won’t be easy
Can New YorkState really stop spending so much money on Medicaid? And do it without hurting people? Or will the money we save now just cost us more in the end? Once again, the governor is promising to do something about Medicaid. In his budget address last week he warned, again, that Medicaid […]
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Cut the Medicaid budget? It won’t be easy
Can New YorkState really stop spending so much money on Medicaid? And do it without hurting people? Or will the money we save now just cost us more in the end? Once again, the governor is promising to do something about Medicaid. In his budget address last week he warned, again, that Medicaid […]
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Cultivating a collection
Librarian Carolyn VanNess wants to take the Rochester Civic Garden Center Library off any “best-kept secret” lists. She wouldn’t mind a few more people knowing that over 4,000 horticultural volumes are tucked into the second floor of RCGC’s home in the Warner Castle. The collection was begun in the late ’40s, and includes books […]
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Medicaid: costs as benefits
Here’s one about a gift that keeps on taking. Last month Citizens for Justice released a study of federal tax cuts and their effects over the next six years. New York, says the group, stands to gain $78.2 billion over that period from the cuts, more than $4,000 per capita. But because the cuts force […]
