Health care providers on Long Island brace for large cuts in Medicaid funding

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "If the federal government cuts back the funding, then my sense would be that the state and local [governments] would have to step in," he said.
57% : "But the physician offices that do take Medicaid are very much on the edge," Cohen said, adding that Medicaid cuts to the physician offices and clinics that serve those patients "would be absolutely devastating, because they are so close on the margin of staying in business.
53% : The federal government paid $57.1 billion for Medicaid in New York state in fiscal year 2024, with the state putting up $35.9 billion and localities such as New York City paying $8.5 billion, according to the New York's Office of State Comptroller.
51% : " Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps people with limited income and resources pay for medical costs, including medical and nursing home care, and personal care services.
46% : House Republicans last month passed a budget resolution to extend those tax cuts, which expire at the end of this year, and to offset the cost cuts they instructed a House committee with jurisdiction over Medicaid to cut spending by $880 billion over the next decade.
44% : The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in an analysis that meeting the goal for identifying spending cuts would require lawmakers to make major changes to Medicaid.
43% : WASHINGTON -- Long Island health care providers say they are bracing for the financial impact of anticipated cuts to Medicaid as the Republican majority in Congress works on sweeping legislation to make 2017 tax cuts permanent.
43% : But Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), chair of the House committee charged with finding $880 billion in spending cuts, said on Tuesday that changes to Medicaid can be made "to make sure people have the benefits they've been promised.
43% : "Although we don't have an actual plan for how they would execute those cuts yet, we do know, just from a sheer numerical perspective, that there would need to be cuts to Medicaid in order for them to achieve the savings that they're looking to extend the tax cuts," Darwell said.
41% : Medicaid likely will face spending cuts, said Wendy Darwell, president and CEO of the Suburban Hospital Alliance of New York State, which includes Long Island hospitals, told Newsday in a phone interview.
40% : " Steven Kent, chief economist for the Long Island Association and professor of economics at Molloy University, described a multiplier effect resulting from cuts to federal funding for Medicaid in New York.
37% : "And either it would reduce the spending for Medicaid, or you would have to raise taxes to pay for the Medicaid that the federal government is not helping with."

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