Spitzer’s Budget Changes Ripped
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- February
- 11
A day after the Spitzer administration said it had to make revisions to the 2008-09 proposed budget because of an expected additional $384 million shortfall, the response to the move has been pretty negative.
The biggest hit would be hospitals, nursing homes and health insurers.
Here’s some of the groups responses today:
Daniel Sisto, president of the Healthcare Association of New York: “The additional health care cut in Governor Spitzer’s 21-day amendments is out of sync with New Yorker’s priorities. A second poll recently conducted on HANYS’ behalf by Siena Research Institute found that New Yorkers from every region clearly oppose the governor’s health cuts.”
New York Health Plan Association: “Governor Spitzer has repeatedly stated two goals: giving more New Yorkers health insurance coverage and doing so without raising taxes. However, the proposed amendments to the 2008-2009 Executive Budget clearly raise taxes on those who currently have health insurance.”
Home Care Association of New York State (HCA) President Joanne Cunningham said: the budget amendments are “a further assault on home health care and the vast majority of New Yorkers who depend on it and support greater access to home health care, not less.�
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, though, came to Spitzer’s defense, saying these are economically unstable times.
“The adjustment the governor made from his original projections is certainly in line with the reality of what is happening out there,” he said.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
