i'll just preface this by saying i thought the actual cut was being made to medicaid, so my phrasing was probably wrong there. your post still strikes me as so wrong though
I was unaware that keeping burglars in jail prior to trial was a bad thing.
like let’s be real, not all lessening of punishments or rules, etc. constitute positive criminal justice reform. There actually are still criminals who actually do need to be handled appropriately.
NY did in fact get way out ahead of the rest of the country on this and then realized a few problems their new no-bail regime was causing and reinstated it for a few crimes. They’re still ahead of most places.
hahahahaha this isn't related to what i said so i'm not gonna bother responding, but this tells me so much about your worldview
I also don’t know where you got this news that NY is slashing Medicaid, which is patently false.
okay, so let's assume what i said is, technically, false. let's assume you're actually arguing this in good faith (this seems like such a gotcha and mikedawg did a number on me with the "bernie sanders voted for the iraq war" but let's try).
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion...0200326-rnw6avzcvjgpzl3pn24me5ba3a-story.html
that's an opinion piece so i guess ill link this too:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/nyregion/coronavirus-hospitals-medicaid-budget.html
again, i could not care less about the mechanisms at play here, but it seems like you're ignoring the obvious effect in favor of gotcha jingoism. how is this not in effect a cut? (unless you thought that specific point was so important you had to make a big post about it)
I know a LOT about state Medicaid programs from working with them for the last 5 years at my job and NY’s is already one of the most generous (and complex) programs in the country and they’re barely cutting anything and certainly not slashing it...
well okay... i don't think you need to be a medical expert to talk about this--or even have worked in the system (if anything i'd wager it probably makes you more intrinsically defensive about it) but sure; since you know a LOT about these programs, one would think you'd actually be opposed to cutting funds during a pandemic?
Annual Medicaid expenditures in NY are over $60B a year. There’s a budgetary shortfall for the program of around $4B right now. Any responsible government would have to try to address this in some way. The gap is largely because of NY’s exceptionally generous, compared to other states, enrollment standards, none of which are changing. What NY is changing is predominantly provider reimbursement. Very little to do with the benefit package NY Medicaid recipients will get or who is eligible.
All in all the changes NY is doing will shift at worst $1B of the 4 back to NYC so it’s off the statewide budget. NYC can possibly afford this extra billion or at worst is in no worse of a position to afford it than NY state is. I don’t consider this to be an actual solution since it’s just budgetary wizardry. And I’m also not really in a position to say who should be paying these costs (NYC does have an unusual amount of control over its Medicaid expenditures for a city already and they are a driver of NY’s high enrollment). But regardless of that, none of this budgetary magic is an actual cut to Medicaid.
There are a few cuts in the new budget that are very minor, and based on the NY Medicaid staff I’ve worked with over the years I’m sure were supported with good evidence. Meanwhile the budget includes other good new measures such as insulin out of pocket price caps. the net effect here of small cuts and small improvements is probably a wash.
it doesn't matter that it's generous compared to other states, the healthcare system is a fucking mess and we should be investing as much as possible especially in time of a crisis. or do you wanna spend more when it inevitably gets worse bc we didn't do enough?
https://www.syracuse.com/coronaviru...ate-legislative-session-effectively-over.html <- another great sign for times to come ahead, seems like the perfect time to stop doing legislation