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WASHINGTON — A gargantuan tax cut for property taxpayers across upstate New York came one small step closer to reality Thursday as Senate Republicans revealed a health care reform bill that includes a provision that bars the state from charging upstate counties for a share of the cost of Medicaid.
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Both the House and Senate bills include a provision by Rep. Chris Collins, R - Clarence, and Rep. John Faso, R - Kinderhook, that would bar the state from charging its upstate and Long Island counties for a share of Medicaid.
The Faso - Collins proposal would bar the state from charging upstate and Long Island counties for a share of Medicaid, the state - federal health care program for the poor and the lower middle class.
The spending plan does not include the health bill amendment that Collins co-authored that would prevent the state from charging upstate and Long Island counties for a share of Medicaid costs.
The program was the subject of an extraordinary showdown last week as Gov. Andrew Cuomo sparred with upstate House Republicans over an amendment to the now - dead American Health Care Act that would have stopped the state from charging county governments for Medicaid costs.
Collins, a Republican from Clarence, has long argued that those county property taxes hold back the upstate economy, and that the county Medicaid charge is an unfair unfunded mandate on counties.