ALBANY - Gov. Eliot Spitzer pledged to cut Medicaid costs Friday, vowing in a major policy speech to be the defender of patients, not the powerful institutional interests that he blamed for persuading elected leaders to perpetuate a broken, unafforda Read More
ALBANY, Jan. 26— Gov. Eliot Spitzer said on Friday that he would seek billions of dollars in Medicaid and health care cost savings when he unveils his first executive budget on Wednesday. But while he repeatedly used the word “reform” in a s Read More
Dennis Rivera, the president of New York's largest health care union, announced yesterday that he would step down, but not without issuing a surprisingly pointed broadside against Gov. Eliot Spitzer's planned cuts in health care spending. In 17 ye Read More
Well, well, well. It seems that Governor Spitzer and Mayor Bloomberg, having bought into the Campaign for Fiscal Equity and the idea that the problem with our schools is a lack of money, are now fighting tooth and nail over the rest of the budget. Th Read More
ALBANY - The man who could soon be in charge of the state's $145 billion pension fund has a lot to learn about managing money - he has little in the way of personal investments and doesn't do his own taxes. "I get them done," said 20-year Assembly Read More
Albany — Here's the dilemma: New York has one of the most generous Medicaid programs in the country. If you're poor and sick there are few places you're better off. And it spends vast sums on its program: $45 billion. $2,213 for every man, wo Read More
"If you're sick of high taxes and squalid schools and unaffordable health care, you should hope beyond hope that Spitzer wins." That was the morning line yesterday from William F. Hammond of the Daily News, a columnist who has no greater admirers Read More
Albany — Michele Bulson of Troy was trapped in an abusive marriage and wanted to get out, but the disabled 37-year-old lives on a fixed income and couldn't afford a lawyer. Last year, thanks to help from The Legal Project, an Albany-area nonprof Read More