Albany's Health Care Reform Act and other Medicaid reforms
slowed the growth in hospital spending in the 1990s, but the
growth is back, a new Public Policy Institute report shows.
"The original HCRA was a major step toward higher-quality
and more affordable health care for New Yorkers," the
Institute's latest Medicaid Watch '05 report says
Some of the New York State Power Authority’s (NYPA)
economic power programs may be in jeopardy if the legislature
doesn’t change the wording in the law that governs NYPA’s
power sources.
The statute names Fitzpatrick Nuclear as the power source
from which NYPA may purchase energy for economic energy programs,
like Power for Jobs
New York State's Medicaid spending on long-term care for older residents is well over twice the national average, and far higher than the level in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and other states, a Public Policy Institute report shows.
"Defenders of the status quo in New York's costly Medicaid program like to argue that if we spend less, we'll end up leaving our elderly loved ones out on the street," the Institute's latest Medicaid Watch '05 report says
In
a significant victory for New York’s business community,
state legislators today have agreed to adopt the single-sales
factor tax reform, a long-time priority of The Business Council.
The
state’s corporate taxes are now based on three factors:
in-state sales, payroll, and property
To cut Medicaid costs, New York must enact reforms that control
Medicaid spending in hospitals, according to the fourth report
in the Public Policy Institute’s Medicaid Watch
'05 series.
“Hospital spending represents the biggest single disparity
between Medicaid spending in New York and in our competitor
states,” according to the report, which was released
today
ALBANY—Daniel Holt, co-publisher of Brooklyn-based Courier Life
Publications, has been named Small Business Advocate of the Year. The
Business Council’s president and CEO, Daniel B. Walsh, presented
the award at The Business Council’s annual Small Business Day March
22 in Albany
New York should be careful not to spend its unexpected revenue
growth this year, but should instead return the money to taxpayers
by embracing the kinds of policies that have spurred job growth
in the past, Governor George Pataki told business leaders
in Albany today
Leaders of New York’s business community, county executives
from around the state, and representatives of the New York
Farm Bureau rallied for cost-cutting Medicaid reform March
22 at the Empire State Plaza in Albany.
The Business Council and the New York State Association of
Counties organized the rally as part of the Council’s
annual Small Business Day
ALBANY—The Business Council is urging the state Legislature to approve
the so-called “single-sales factor” tax reform, legislation
that would benefit businesses that have made significant
commitments to New York State by investing in jobs and facilities.
“Single-sales factor” apportionment would make New York a
more attractive state for both the location and retention capital investments
and jobs, since its eliminates what is in effect a tax penalty for having
a significant in-state physical presence, said Daniel B
A farmer, a journalist, a fiscal-policy expert, and a veteran
lobbyist discussed how New York’s economic policies
affect its economic outcomes—and agreed that the effect
has been an unhealthy one for many decades.
“In the 1960s, New York State had everything going
for it,” said Mark Bitz, a turkey farmer from central
New York and, since last fall, a high-profile reform-Albany
advocate