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Number of Pennsylvania residents relying on food stamps and Medicaid is skyrocketing
The number of Pennsylvanians receiving food stamps and Medicaid has ballooned compared to a generation ago.
Risky scheme to game Medicaid, yes, US troops can save Haiti and other commentary
The new state budget “imposes a multibillion-dollar tax on health insurance without specifying who must pay how much,” fumes the Empire Center’s Bill Hammond.
Government programs are WIDENING black-white health disparities
For decades, federal-welfare programs like Medicaid have overpromised and underdelivered.
Here's hoping Gov. Kathy Hochul doesn't cave in budget talks
Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to cave to progressives in New York state budget talks and expand rent control, after also backing down on school-aid cuts. Is there anything she’ll...
NY lawmakers not likely to make April 1 state budget deadline — but may have deal in place soon
State lawmakers are expected to blow their April 1 budget deadline as talks drag on over potential cuts in education and Medicaid spending and how to build more affordable housing.
Defend your Medicaid and school-aid cuts, Gov. Hochul
The central conflict in this year's state budget negotiations is that Gov. Hochul wants to rein in the fastest-growing spending categories.
NY lawmakers fight gov's plan to reform murky $6B Medicaid program: 'I don't know why Hochul hates me'
The program, which pays people to take care of elderly friends and family members, is extremely susceptible to abuse, critics say.
'Cruel' Medicaid program targets dead peoples' homes to recoup health care costs
A person's home is typically exempt from qualifying for Medicaid. But it is subject to the estate recovery process for those who were over 55 and used Medicaid to pay...
Lawmakers' drunken-sailor spending spree is sure to bankrupt New York
The bills came in response to Gov. Hochul’s spending scheme and upped her $233 billion bottom line by a jaw-dropping $13 billion.
Biden's State of the Union misfires, Medicaid mess and other commentary
President “Biden started his speech with these words: ‘If I were smart, I’d go home now,’” quips USA Today’s Ingrid Jacques.
Hamas hijacks British democracy, 1199SEIU's money grab and other commentary
Conservative: Hamas Hijacks British Democracy “The crisis of British democracy is finally here,” thunders Commentary’s Seth Mandel. Last Wednesday, “the opposition Scottish National Party put up a resolution calling for...
NY’s $6 billion consumer home care Medicaid program in Gov. Hochul's crosshairs after years of fraud and abuse
A $6 billion Medicaid program allowing New Yorkers to get paid to take care of elderly adults which critics say has been vulnerable to fraud and abuse for years is...
Medicaid home care program marketed to NYers on TikTok as a 'get rich quick' scheme
A $6 billion Medicaid care program is being advertised to young New Yorkers as an easy way to stay home and get “paid by the government” raising fears that taxpayer...
How NY's $6 billion CDPAP Medicaid program has been abused, overused for years
New Yorkers with zero healthcare experience are allowed to care for their elderly or disabled relatives and friends potentially earning more than $43,000 a year under a $6 billion Medicaid...
Personal-care aides are milking New Yorkers — and taking the state for billions
Albany is actually handing out billions to people claiming to be in-home “personal care” aides with little training and practically no oversight.
Hochul wants to create a middle-class Medicaid entitlement New York can't afford
Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a plan last month to cut $1.2 billion in Medicaid funding, which she’ll finalize Thursday.
Germany’s farm fury, the truth about New Hampshire and other commentary
What’s driving the mass demonstrations by farmers that “reminded the German political class why it’s best not to get on the wrong side of people who operate large machinery?"
NY should worry about Gavin Newsom funding health care for illegal migrants in California
All low-income California residents, regardless of immigration status, are now eligible for the same taxpayer-funded, safety-net health insurance program on which 14 million people already rely.
Governor Hochul's only idea to solve New York's budget problem is to spend more
In her presentation of the $232.7 billion state budget for the upcoming 2025 fiscal year, which starts in April, Gov. Hochul channeled St. Augustine.
Hochul's budget isn't terrible — but will she stand up to lawmakers who will want to make it so?
Let's hope she sticks to her guns against the coming demands from the tax-and-spendaholic Legislature.