E.J. McMahon on “The John Gambling Show” WNYM 970

E.J. McMahon joined John Gambling on WNYM to discuss the state's growing Medicaid rolls.

What’s in the budget? App has answers January 27, 2015 | Press Releases

The Empire Center’s Explore Your State Budget app has been updated to reflect financial data in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed 2015-16 Executive Budget.

Samuels to Cuomo: Cover Medicaid To Lower Property Taxes January 20, 2015 | Media Coverage

Bill Samuels, founder of the liberal policy group EffectiveNY, called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to champion a property tax relief proposal floated by Mario Cuomo, the executive’s late father.

Republican senator aims high on cost of Obama order December 08, 2014 | Capital New York

State Senator Mike Nozzolio is calling on Congress to block President Obama's immigration order, which he says could cost the state $2 billion a year, a much higher figure than what most experts predict.

Senate GOP: Immigration order will cost NY December 04, 2014 | Ithaca Journal

Republicans in the state Senate are claiming that the new federal immigration order could end up costing New York as much as $2 billion in Medicaid costs.

Obama hands NY a Medicaid bomb by E.J. McMahon | NY Torch

With the stroke of a pen, President Barack Obama has just put added pressure on the second-biggest category of New York’s state operating funds budget—Medicaid.

Obama’s recent executive order on immigration could drive up New York’s Medicaid costs by $1.1 billion to $2 billion, state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos warned in a letter yesterday to the state’s U.S. senators.

How much will Obama’s immigration order cost N.Y.? December 02, 2014 | Capital New York

On John Gambling's radio show this morning, Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos reiterated his warning that President Obama's executive order on immigration could cost the state as much as $2 billion.

“Our estimates are conservative,” Skelos said.

But Skelos' numbers, which he has used to warn of potential cuts to other programs, appear to present a worst-case scenario for the state budget from the president's order, which could add thousands of previously undocumented immigrants to the state's Medicaid rolls.

Obama’s immigration overhaul could cost state millions in health care November 22, 2014 | New York Daily News

President Obama’s immigration overhaul could be expensive for New York — putting the state on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in added health-care costs.