Sentences with phrase «health care budget cuts»

At the LCA dinner on Saturday, an annual event held by the Albany press corp featuring humorous appearances by politicians, Paterson portrayed an extremely whiny version of the wheelchair - bound man from those TV ads criticizing health care budget cuts a couple of months ago — while also taking shots at Malcolm Smith, Sheldon Silver, and the Post's Fred Dicker.

Not exact matches

Let's cut to the chase: The big news out of Washington on Monday was the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) newly released analysis of the Senate's health care bill.

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

The House budget includes $ 4.3 trillion of policy savings, with most of the savings come from health care programs ($ 2 trillion) and other mandatory programs ($ 2.5 trillion) but also net spending cuts in domestic discretionary spending.

«A reduction in gas prices and grocery deflation will help customers stretch their budgets, but they're still trying to absorb a 2 % payroll tax cut, uncertainty over Washington, and a lack of clarity around personal health care costs that are all headwinds,» Mr. Simon said.

The President's budget document states, «Prudent investments in education, clean energy, health care and infrastructure were sacrificed for huge tax cuts for the wealthy and well - connected.

My biggest concern about war is that billions of dollars are going to bombs while budgets are being cut for education, health care, social services and Medicaid.

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Republican Representative Paul Ryan's latest budget cuts Medicare spending 50 % and Medicaid spending 75 % to pay for a 12.5 % tax break for millionaires; Republican intransigence on raising revenue to lower the deficit will trigger irresponsible cuts to our defense budget; and Republicans want to strip women of the ability to make health care choices for themselves.»

Nobody cares that he had an on time budget what they care about his misuse of power, cut backs in mental health facilties, his ties with Time Warner Cable as one of his largest donors and how his other donor Extell supports the poor door policy.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said Cuomo is right to draw attention to over a billion dollars in potential health care cuts to the state, now that Congress and President Donald Trump have postponed acting on a new federal budget.

Gov. David Paterson last Thursday proposed $ 5 billion in cuts over the next two years to fill a growing state budget deficit, and the plan makes deep reductions in funding to education, health care and state agencies.

The cuts would leave a multi-billion-dollar hole in the state budget, and affect New Yorkers who depend on the government to help with their health care.

Stung by the expiration of federal aid intended to help states balance budgets as they seek to recover from the recession that began in 2008, the final budget is also expected to include another cut in local aid to cities and towns and to call for reduced growth in the rate of spending on education and health care, although special education is one of the few areas in which significant investments appear imminent.

Following a few years of relative fiscal stability thanks to the economic recovery and bank settlements following the financial collapse, New York is staring down a budget deficit of more than $ 4 billion, an amount that could be grow because of cuts in federal health care spending and the tax overhaul.

While voters are nearly evenly divided between the two candidates on most issues, Hayworth is viewed as stronger on taxes and the federal budget deficit in a district that favors repealing health care and retaining the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.

None of the details are yet clear, but one thing is certain: in envisaging an integration of health and care budgets, decision - makers at the metropolitan centre are devolving desperately hard choices away from Whitehall at a moment when social care funding has been cut to crisis level and more cuts are required.

Further complicating Cuomo's task, 52 percent of voters want Cuomo to balance the budget without cuts to health care and education — the two biggest spending areas, which the governor - elect has been quite clear will likely suffer next year.

Now that U.S. Senate Republicans have failed in their attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare and cut Medicaid, the House GOP is pushing a budget that aims to do all that and then some, which, like their health care reform plan, will negatively impact New York.

Gov. David Paterson has apparently included $ 775 million in cuts to state funding for health care services in his latest budget extender bill, making good on his pledge to try to force the Legislature's hand on some of his proposed spending reductions.

Cuomo went on to allow that Paterson is in a «desperate» situation with the budget more than two months late, and thus has had to resort to a «desperate tactic» of insisting that the Legislature choose between approving extender bills that include cuts (in this case, cuts to health care spending) and a government shutdown.

As New York State braces for proposed federal budget cuts that could have a devastating impact on health care, education and infrastructure investments across the state, more than 80 New York residents with incomes in the top 1 % have sent an open letter... (read more)

Speaking on the Capitol Pressroom this morning, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, said he was an effective negotiator for his conference, despite deep cuts to traditionally taboo budget areas like education aid and health care.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week continued his simmering disagreement with Senate Republicans over tax and fee increases in the budget, saying that without the revenue, the state would have to cut back on health care and school spending.

The taxes are being proposed as the $ 168 billion budget proposal avoids cutting the two most expensive and politically senstivie areas of state spending: education and health care.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday morning the federal budget outlook — and the fate of cuts to health care programs in New York — remained too vague to determine whether a special session of the Legislature was necessary.

Due to the lack of information provided by the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint, DOH can not categorically state all programs at risk, but does note the following are subject to cuts as identified by funding streams identified in the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint or as noted in the recent release of the American Health Care Act (herein referred to as the «AHCA»).

He is not making any cuts to health care, but his budget does assume that President Trump and Congress will eventually refund the Child Health Plus program as well as the Disproportionate Share Hospital prhealth care, but his budget does assume that President Trump and Congress will eventually refund the Child Health Plus program as well as the Disproportionate Share Hospital prHealth Plus program as well as the Disproportionate Share Hospital program.

The state's comptroller is siding with Governor Cuomo over concerns that federal health care cuts will damage New York's budget, but he says the governor's budget experts should have saved more money in rainy day funds.

The issue was, as it always is, the budget: a swollen $ 136 billion chimera that, $ 9.2 billion out of balance, would require massive cuts to education and health care spending and possible layoffs of state workers, to say nothing of some tax increases.

A day after Paterson bullied lawmakers into accepting $ 775 million worth of health care cuts as part of an emergency extender to keep government operating, the governor is considering a painful menu of new budget cuts.

Lawmakers are already eyeing an estimated $ 4 billion deficit in next year's budget, and Cuomo said other health care funding cuts proposed by Washington Republicans would only make the situation worse.

Paterson cut $ 385 million from the health care budget, with an additional $ 300 million booked in savings from reducing Medicaid fraud, that most popular and elusive of Medicaid promises.

Cuomo has long warned that deep cuts to federal health care spending could rip huge holes in the state's budget and devastate health care coverage for New Yorkers.

Agencies under the UJA - Federation umbrella have lost a total of $ 6 million due to Paterson's veto of legislative earmarks known as member - item grants, the latest in eight cycles of budget cuts that have rocked the non-sectarian network of special education, child care, mental health, immigrant and other services, lowering revenue by 5 to 7 percent, said Soloway.

During the budget battle in March, the Capitol was clogged with even larger demonstrations that protested cuts to health care and education.

«While we were recently able to pass an on - time and fiscally responsible budget, our pragmatic approach to closing the budget gap has caused extreme hardship in the form of cuts to schools, health care, energy and environmental programs and a drastic reduction in the state workforce,» Avella said in a statement.

«Budget cuts to health care, education, and social and senior services require thorough deliberation, not a rushed process that hurts the state's most vulnerable citizens.»

The budget backlash continues today as several groups representing education, public employees, and low - income New Yorkers bashed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget, saying there are other ways to close the state's $ 10 billion gap without laying off workers or cutting from education and health care.

He seemed to almost dare legislators who are balking over education and health care cuts and key policy issues like prison closures and the med - mal cap to challenge him to a game of budget chicken.

Here's the full text of Cuomo's e-mail, which was forwarded by a reader (interestingly, it speaks in very general terms about the budget and «realigning» spending, but makes no mention of the deep education and health care cuts, which opponents say will lead to service reductions):

The health care industry is planning a $ 6 million «shock and awe» ad campaign to oppose potential cuts in the proposed budget.

An estimate released by the Congressional Budget Office found the American Health Care Act would throw 23 million people off insurance and cut $ 119 million out of the deficit should it be approved.

Bearing signs saying «Don't balance the budget on the backs of the poor» and shouting «Hey hey, ho ho, the funding cuts have got to go,» the roughly 150 demonstrators, largely from New York City, represented progressive activist groups pushing for rent reductions for people with HIV, homeless services, low - income housing, health care and other issues.

Surrounded by local officials at the Mount Vernon neighborhood health center, Latimer discussed what he calls the «dismal effects» of Astorino's budget cuts to health services during his tenure as County Executive — including cuts to local health care centers, daycares, women's health services and mental health services.

Paterson has insisted that cuts in spending on education and health care are needed to balance the budget.

Ideas like this are gaining support from advocates given the state's estimated $ 10 billion budget deficit, which could require billions in cuts to schools and health care.

Saying that the federal tax law gives health insurers a 40 % cut on their corporate taxes while transferring health care costs to the state, the budget would impose a 14 % tax on health insurer gains.

Russell supports a 70 percent cut in the military budget; legalization of marijuana; a «single payer,» government - run health care system; campaign finance reform; and tough curbs on greenhouse gas emissions.

The proposal, part of the $ 168.2 billion executive budget released last week, says that any Medicaid managed care or long - term care Health Maintenance Organization that has excess reserves across all lines of business would be subject to a prospective cut in Medicaid rates.