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War’s closer than you think, Joe’s credibility crisis and other commentary
“The U.S. is much closer to getting involved in another Middle East war than most in Washington understand,” warns The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Russell Mead.
Hochul's budget, a 29% hike over pre-COVID, sets up New York for a huge fiscal crash
Her bottom line grows 2.4%, which sounds reasonable but — as Nicole Gelinas notes — is actually 29% higher than the state's pre-COVID level.
Medicaid rolls swell as 8 million New Yorkers get coverage at expected record- price of almost $35B
The number of New York state residents who get government-funded Medicaid health insurance is expected to soar.
Republicans who refuse to reform Social Security are simply reckless
Newly elected Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) tweeted that ex-President Donald Trump was 100% correct to demand: "Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or...
NY must prune its bloated Medicaid program — and focus on improving low-quality care
The coronavirus pandemic exposed a fundamental imbalance in New York’s approach to health policy: Albany spends too much money on its bloated Medicaid plan but neglects the public-health programs that...
Let’s hope GOP nominates Trump, Schiff’s unlawful Twitter threat and other commentary
If independents abandon Trump as they did his midterm candidates, there’s “no chance” he can keep the election even “close.”
Team Biden's extending the COVID emergency again — to expand the welfare state
This is the same administration that’s expanding government health programs like Medicaid and Medicare to cover nonmedical, “health-related social needs” such as food and housing. This stealth expansion of the...
Team Biden’s latest welfare expansion: Medicaid payments for housing, food, even furniture
The latest front in the Biden administration’s crusade to expand the welfare state comes in the form of the medicalization of everyday life through Medicaid coverage of “health-related social needs.”
Biden's Medicaid plans will send the program completely off the rails
President Joe Biden is moving forward with three dangerous policies that will further undermine its already-shaky integrity and even expand it into housing, food and climate change.
Hochul stands by Medicaid contractor tied to campaign donations that feds say cost taxpayers up to $195 million
The recent US Department of Health and Human Services inspector general report ordered the state to reimburse the federal government for at least $84.3 million in state Medicaid payments.
New York's swelling Medicaid rolls are helping bankrupt Brooklyn's biggest hospital
Maimonides Medical Center is Brooklyn's largest hospital, and newly released financials show it barely has the cash to make it through another year.
Florida bans Medicaid use on gender-affirming treatments
Florida is implementing new language to Medicaid program rules stating that it would not cover services for the treatment of gender dysphoria.
Pay-to-play Hochul's keeping up the worst Cuomo tradition
Gov. Kathy Hochul continues to embrace and extend the worst traditions of her disgraced predecessor Andrew Cuomo.
Couple from Medicaid firm awarded millions in NY contracts delivered over $300K in donations to Hochul, Cuomo
Critics say the donations are a textbook case of Albany’s pay-to-play culture.
Ex-trans teen supports Florida rule blocking funding for medical interventions
A California teen who formerly identified as transgender is backing a Florida rule blocking Medicaid funds from paying for medical interventions for gender dysphoria -- emotionally telling a hearing that...
Feds: YOU must be vaxxed — but WE don't have to be
Who watches the watchers? When it comes to the vaccination status of the federal government's vaccine cops, it turns out: no one.
NYers buy Medicaid for illegal migrants in Gov. Hochul, Dems' $220B budget
Illegal immigrants aged 65 and over in New York will be able to obtain taxpayer-financed health care in the state budget signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul and passed by the...
States should refuse the feds’ ‘free money’ that’s creating huge, costly Medicaid rolls
Last year, virtually every Republican governor opted out of the Biden administration’s unemployment bonus, which paid millions of people more than they made by working.
Gov. Hochul mustn't cave to NY's spendaholics when she lays out her budget
Gov. Kathy Hochul can use her budget presentation Thursday to prove she’ll be a responsible governor — by avoiding new expenses that lack funding down the road, and instead plugging...
'Medicaid for All' is rapidly becoming a reality in New York
In New York, it looks like the Democrats’ dream of “Medicare for All” is rapidly becoming a reality. Or at least “Medicaid for All.”