Assemblyman Gary D. FINCH |
Working to Repair the Faulty Medicaid Process |
Assemblyman GARY D. FINCH |
Repairing Medicaid |
When Albany imposes unfunded mandates, the results are often disastrous. Local governments cannot balance their budgets and they are strong-armed into raising property taxes. Medicaid is the most burdensome of all these mandates. Assemblyman Finch and his colleagues are working hard to right this wrong. |
The Assembly Minority plan is based on a phased-in, five-year state takeover of local Medicaid costs. The five-year plan would be financed by exchanging up to 1 percent of each county’s local sales tax revenue for the state taking over each county’s full share of Medicaid costs. In most upstate counties, the Medicaid costs far exceed 1 percent of the sales tax, so the state would pick up the balance. The proposal would make it impossible for counties to ever raise property taxes due to Medicaid expenses. |
2005 Total Savings Under the
Broome County
Cayuga County
Chenango County
Cortland County
Tioga County |
Contact Assemblyman Finch: District Office: 69 South Street, Auburn, NY 13021 • (315) 255-3045 Albany Office: 718 LOB • Albany, NY 12248 • (518) 455-5878 E-mail: finchg@assembly.state.ny.us |
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