Medicaid

 

Medicaid: wreaking havoc in health care

How New York State's runaway Medicaid spending is strangling the taxpayers and undercutting the quality of medical care

The reality of New York's Medicaid program:

• Supporting Medicaid costs the average family of four in this state over $5,000 a year.
  
• Our costs for Medicaid are well over twice the national average.
  
• The two larger states, California and Texas, have almost three times our population—but combined, they spend only a bit more than New York on Medicaid.
  
• Our costs are particularly out of line with the norm in spending on nursing homes and home health care.
  
• What drives our costs? A program that is more generous to health-care providers than other states'.
  
• New York's costs are so far out of line that the state sticks local governments with a substantial share—and that, in turn, is a major reason our property taxes are so high.
  

 

New York only state to broaden Medicaid

Eligibility, benefits widen in 2010, 2011

Updated: October 1, 2010, 4:04 PM

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WASHINGTON — While facing unprecedented deficits, New York State was nonetheless the only state in the nation to decide to broaden eligibility, benefits and medical provider payments for Medicaid — the state-federal health program for the elderly, disabled and poor — this year and next.
At a time when many states were trimming coverage for dental care and other benefits, New York instead slightly expanded what was already the most generous Medicaid program in the nation, while making benefits easier to get, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey found Thursday.
In contrast, 10 states trimmed Medicaid benefits for both 2010 and 2011, and six cut back their long-term care programs in both years, the Kaiser survey found.
“It’s part of the history in New York . . . to supplement the safety net,” said Vernon K. Smith, a consultant with Health Management Associates and a former director of Michigan’s Medicaid program.
And that supplementing continued even as New York worked to patch multibillion-dollar budget holes in both fiscal 2010 and 2011. 

In contrast, 10 states trimmed Medicaid benefits for both 2010 and 2011, and six cut back their long-term care programs in both years, the Kaiser survey found. 

Medicaid experts told The Buffalo News last week that Cuomo’s proposals would do little to alter the ultimate size of the state’s Medicaid program.

Neither campaign responded to a request to comment on the Medicaid report. 

Republican Carl P. Paladino has proposed cutting the program— which costs more than $50 billion a year—by $20 billion.
Read the whole article here: http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article207506.ece

New York Has Highest Medicaid Costs

January 24, 2006
by Dylan Skriloff

Medicaid spending per-capita in New York State is now over twice the national average.

An average of $2,165 per resident is spent on the service, a new Public Policy Institute analysis shows. The Institute analyzed Medicaid spending data for New York and the other 49 states as the latest installment in its Just The Facts series of key economic and statistical indicators for New York. The updated tables on Medicaid spending, and all other tables in the Just the Facts series, are available at www.ppinys.org/reports/jtf.htm.

The state’s spending made up 14.5 percent of total spending on Medicaid in the U.S. that year. That percentage was more than twice the state's share of U.S. population, 6.6 percent.

New York’s $486 per capita on inpatient and outpatient care in hospitals in 2004 was the highest in the nation and 143 percent above the national average. The state spent 146 percent more than California ($197 per capita), and 256 percent more than Texas ($136 per capita).

Read the rest here: http://www.rocklandbusiness.org/newsletter/2006newsletters/newsletter_medicaid012406.htm

Kliphnote: How many years have I been saying this? Forever it seems.

New York state has the best and highest cost program in the country.

NY state Medicaid is better than many working peoples health care plans. 

And the working people are paying for it, from both ends.

They pay for Medicaid and their own health care plan. 

And they have to work for it.

Those with Medicaid don't have to work of it.

This is why people move from other states to NY, to be on Welfare and Medicaid.

And you wonder why NY has the highest taxes. 

Keep voting for the liberal down-state politicians and it will never change. 

Up-state will be downtrodden forever.