Gov. Kathy Hochul’s first budget is poised to include what some health care advocates consider long overdue investments in the sector.
A patient room at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, New YorkGov. Kathy Hochul’s first budget is poised to include what some health care advocates consider long overdue investments in the sector, including a 1% across-the-board boost to the rates Medicaid pays health care providers and a cost-of-living pay increase that would benefit those working with people with mental illnesses and disabilities.
Instead, the final budget, once passed, will include funding to provide new mothers who are undocumented with postpartum health coverage for up to a year and to extend health insurance to undocumented immigrants who are over 65. “We know how critically important they are to families and to their sense of security,” Hochul said of home health aides during aBut this smaller increase could force some home health aides to reduce their hours to remain on public benefits such as Medicaid, rather than increasing wages enough for people to get off of public benefits entirely, argued Ilana Berger, executive director of Hand In Hand: The Domestic Employers Network, one of the organizations that pushed for the Fair Pay for Home...
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