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Hochul's budget isn't terrible — but will she stand up to lawmakers who will want to make it so?
Let's hope she sticks to her guns against the coming demands from the tax-and-spendaholic Legislature.
Sorry, but the 'drugs from Canada' don't work
First, how much would all the added risk to the safety and effectiveness of medicines from importation save US consumers? Hardly anything.
The simple reform Congress can make to move millions from welfare to work
Congress has a chance to help millions of Americans move from welfare to work while fixing one of the country’s most broken federal programs.
Doctors lobbying for Medicare for All should be careful what they wish for
A group of New England doctors pressed the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates this month to drop the organization’s opposition to single-payer health care.
Fight the drug crisis now, how 10/7 unified Israel and other commentary
“More than 100,000 Americans died of a drug overdose last year, the second year in a row in which the death toll reached six figures,” reports Charles Fain Lehman.
Biden administration slow to act as millions are booted off Medicaid, advocates say
Up to 30 million of the poorest Americans could be purged from the Medicaid program, many the result of error-ridden state reviews that poverty experts say the Biden administration is...
Tom Suozzi took donations from doctor accused of stealing $1.3M from Medicaid
Former Rep. Tom Suozzi pocketed more than $20,000 from a cardiologist accused of stealing more than $1.3 million in Medicare and Medicaid funding, records show.
Better watch out: AOC & fellow socialists are coming for YOUR earnings
AOC wants to raise taxes not just on the rich, but on every household earning more than $250K per year to pay for her whacked-out lefty giveaways.
Nikki Haley: My plan to unleash America’s secret weapon — economic freedom
Nikki Haley believes Communist China is an existential threat.
The mainstream media's Medicaid lies
In red states, there are over 20 million-plus ineligible recipients for Medicaid.
Record NY Medicaid budget to shatter $100B -- and migrant crisis set to only trigger another spike
The annual cost of New York’s public health insurance for the needy is set to shatter $100 billion for the first time — and the unrelenting migrant crisis could soon...
Top psychiatrist accused of keeping patients against their will in massive Medicaid scam
"I never even saw his face,” mom of three Shannon Williams, 52, told NBC News of her "nightmare" at feeling like she "was in a prison" for five days.
Social-services spending under Mayor Adams soars thanks to the migrant crisis
In the decade since the final Bloomberg-era budget, city spending has soared by 12% above inflation.
Memo to critics: Only folks who don't qualify will lose their Medicaid
Medicaid advocates are demanding the federal government to stop states from removing people from the program after more than 1.5 million enrollees were dropped in less than three months.
Killing care-home reforms, EPA’s electric-vehicle insanity and other commentary
With union support, “nearly half of New York’s nursing homes would be effectively exempted from a two-year-old minimum spending law under terms of a rollback” passed last week, grumbles the...
FDA approves 'robust' dementia drug that slows cognitive decline
Lecanemab, marketed as Leqembi, could be a game-changer for people with Alzheimer's disease — but only if they can get it.
Debt deal shows Democrats are the party of freeloaders
On Wednesday night, the House passed legislation to raise the nation’s borrowing limit and cap future spending.
Hochul promised a late, not bad, budget — but gave NYers both
A late budget beats a bad one, Gov. Kathy Hochul rightly argued. But then she delivered both.
Since when did linking work to welfare handouts become so controversial?
Should you work to get welfare? Republicans in the House of Representatives say yes. It’s the right answer.
LGBT groups disinvite Hochul from Gay Pride Parade over 'Cuomo-era' budget flap
The Pride Center of Western NY and Evergreen Health informed Hochul and her administration "that their request to attend the Buffalo Pride Parade and Festival has been declined."