State lawmakers cut millions from health care
Quick ReadThe health care cuts and savings, valued at $775 million per year, are part of the still unfinished $136-billion state budget for this year.
Photo credit: AP | Jason Morales, a Service Employees International Union 1199 Healthcare member from the Brooklyn borough of New York, holds a sign as health care workers protest proposed cuts in the state budget at the Capitol in Albany. (June 7, 2010)
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Former New York Gov. David A. Paterson
ALBANY - Lawmakers approved hundreds of millions of dollars in reductions to health care spending last night, though last-minute negotiations spared programs for seniors and the poor.
The health care cuts and savings, valued at $775 million per year, are part of the still unfinished $136-billion state budget for this year. Gov. David A. Paterson included them in the emergency spending bills...
