NEWS - MARCH 2005
- Health Care Reform
Act initially slowed spending, but New York's hospital system
is growing again, report shows (March 28, 2005)
- Council urges lawmakers
to change statute governing NYPA power sources (March
28, 2005)
- Medicaid
spending on elderly is billions higher in New York, but
care may not be better, report shows (March 28,
2005)
- Lawmakers
agree on a top Council priority: single-sales factor reform
(March 25, 2005)
- Report:
New York must control Medicaid's hospital spending (March
24, 2005)
- Four
diverse panelists agree: New York's economic policies have
hurt its economy (March 22, 2005)
- Governor
renews call for Medicaid reform before business leaders;
Senate Majority Leader urges single-sales factor tax reform
(March 22, 2005)
- Business
leaders, county executives, farmers rally for Medicaid reform
in Albany (March 22, 2005)
- Council
urges lawmakers to enact single-sales factor tax reform
(March 22, 2005)
- Governor
Pataki to keynote Business Council's annual Small Business
Day (March 21, 2005)
- Report:
To restrain Medicaid spending, New York should emulate Massachusetts
(March 21, 2005)
- Six
New York State elementary schools to receive Business Council’s
Pathfinder Awards in separate ceremonies in April (March
18, 2005)
- New
York's school spending is second-highest in the country,
a new Census Bureau report shows. (March 18, 2005)
- Senator
Charles Schumer to keynote March 23 Binghamton University
research symposium (March 18, 2005)
- Report:
New York's high Medicaid costs are driven by spending on
"all of the above" (March 17, 2005)
-
Governor reportedly secures new conditional federal Medicaid
aid (March 16, 2005)
- Medicaid
reform and high costs of doing business in New York will
be focus of Small Business Day March 22 in Albany (March
15, 2005)
- Survey:
New York employers among least optimistic about second-quarter
hiring (March 15, 2005)
- Public
Policy Institute launches Medicaid Watch '05, a
series of reports documenting the case for Medicaid reforms
to reduce total spending (March 14, 2005)
- Council
urges state to eliminate controversial surcharge on energy
(March 7, 2005)
- State
Assemblyman Robin Schimminger (D-Kenmore) has introduced
a nine-bill Medicaid reform package (March 3, 2005)
- New York State’s county officials, farmers, and business leaders hold two more rallies to urge Albany to give Medicaid relief to counties, taxpayers (March 2, 2005)