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Unions launch ads opposing hospital cuts
Healthcare Strategist Trend Watch, March 2, 2007
Service Employees International Union 1199, United Healthcare Workers-East, and the Greater New York Hospital Association have launched a campaign encouraging New Yorkers to oppose Governor Eliot Spitzer's proposed $1 billion cuts to hospitals and nursing homes, according to the Albany, NY, Times-Union.
Spitzer's plan expands health insurance programs for children, but to do so, halts Medicaid payments to hospitals and nursing homes for one year. Recent state budgets have allowed for an 8% expected growth for Medicaid. Spitzer's fiscal 2007 proposal allows for a 1.7% growth.
Television advertisements praise Spitzer for his desire to reform healthcare, but say his plan is not going about it the right way. The unions also have developed a Web site, www.stopthecuts.org.
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