NY Medicaid Update: Spitzer a Player?

Last week, a New York City-area hospital trade group, the Greater New York Hospital Association, which had teamed up with 1199 SEIU to pay for an expensive television advertising campaign, decided to pull the plug on its involvement in the effort at the urging of some of the city's top hospital executives....Spitzer Nears Hospital Deal That Could Isolate Union, Jacob Gershman, The New York Sun, 3/20/2007

Those like Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver who thought new boy on the block Governor Spitzer was a mark may get one hell of a surprise if this deal goes through. But it has to. New York State spends more than twice as much Medicaid money per patient as does California. That's a little hard to believe, considering that California has been rightfully considered the American socialist state bar none for decades. The Peoples Republic of New York, however, has been playing the same game for decades. Now look -- its elite are discovering that the fly in the Marxist ointment is a Democrat. Whoopee!

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