Not exact matches
Proponents of raising taxes on New York's wealthiest say they have a new impetus to increase the state's revenue — the continued bad news from Washington
about deep
federal cuts to
health care and other areas.
Despite lingering fears
about cuts to
health care in Washington, it's worth noting that
federal funding for the state's massive Medicaid program is still on track to go up, not down, in the year ahead.
«As always, you have to make decisions
about how much you can afford to do in school aid and how much money you have to put aside for the potential impact of
federal cuts in Medicaid and in
health care,» Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (D - Irondequoit) said last week.
After weeks of warning
about its possible consequences, a
federal cut to New York's hospitals took effect on Sunday, adding stress to the state's already overworked public
health care system.
They are concerned
about funding
cuts for foster
care programs, public
health and
federal social service funds being reprogrammed.
A sobering report to governors
about the potential consequences of repealing the Obama - era
health care law warns that
federal spending
cuts probably would create funding gaps for states and threaten many people with the loss of insurance coverage.
Using a current - law baseline measure, the state budget gap for fiscal 2018 - 19 alone was last projected by DOB at $ 4 billion, a figure the governor himself began citing recently (without further explanation) in his recent warnings
about the implications of
federal health care spending
cuts.
• The second interim report of the Senate Select Committee inquiring into
health policies raised concerns
about the damage being done to primary
health care by
Federal funding
cuts.