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Cuomo wants SUNY dorms converted into temporary hospitals to manage coronavirus overflow

This afternoon Governor Andrew Cuomo called on President Donald Trump to convert dormitory buildings across the State University of New York into temporary intensive care facilities, in order to create additional capacity to treat respiratory illnesses that are expected to

NIH purchases of aborted fetal parts for ‘Humanized Mice’ testing raise questions

WASHINGTON, DC – Judicial Watch announced it received 676 pages of records from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) showing that the agency paid thousands of dollars to a California-based firm to purchase organs from aborted human fetuses to create “humanized

A Medicaid boost for unions?

BY KEN GIRARDIN Amid Albany’s Medicaid over-spending crisis, the state Health Department is reconfiguring a little-known portion of the deficit-ridden program in what looks like a scheme to squeeze union dues from roughly 110,000 Medicaid-subsidized in-home caregivers. About 74,000 New Yorkers

Spending bill locks in Obamacare mistake

BY JOSEPH ANTOS The $1.4 trillion spending bill that will keep the federal government running for the next few months includes a curious provision that doubles down on a fundamental flaw of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Section 609 of the

Scathing report suggests Cuomo mishandled Medicaid reforms

The budget crisis in New York’s Medicaid program stems from the failure of a key cost-control measure adopted during Governor Andrew Cuomo’s first term, according to a new report from the Empire Center for Public Policy. In 2011, Cuomo and the Legislature