Andrew Cuomo’s plan to stick the Big Apple with a $1 billion chunk of the state’s coming Medicaid bills, warning Monday the program would cripple local governments across the state. If it was the law in 2019, City Hall calculates it would have been on the hook for the entire $1.1 billion cost increase in providing Medicaid to the Big Apple, as the program’s cost ballooned from $16.2 billion to $17.3 billion. Cuomo’s office claims the Medicaid outrage is overblown because the governor formed a commission tasked with getting spending growth back below 3 percent a year. “The mayor used his time on the soapbox to misinform the public about our Medicaid reforms,” said the state’s budget director, Robert Mujica. “The Medicaid Redesign Team will bring spending in line with targeted growth while ensuring 6 million New Yorkers maintain the same high-quality care they have now.”

Source: The Local February 10, 2020 23:48 UTC