A good time to recall that a leading member of the Caring Majority, 1199 SEIU, successfully lobbied to *reduce* wage supplements for downstate home health aides as part of last year's budget empirecenter.org/publications/1…

The US doesn't just have more actively licensed nurses than ever before, it also has record-high number of working RNs - up 3% during the study period, per @bls_gov.

So how are the authors defining this 'national nursing shortage'? jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

NY's Medicaid spending on home care has exploded to over $18,000,000,000 per year and, as @nyhammond points out, it's become such a lucrative industry that the second-biggest provider is buying the biggest.

empirecenter.org/publications/o…

New post:

Centers Plan for Health Living, NY's largest Medicaid managed long-term care plan, has agreed to a buy-out by Elevance, owner of the state's No. 2 MLTC plan

empirecenter.org/publications/o…

From Ken Girardin: The Union Gave Them the Wrong Data. The Pols Cited It Anyway. empirecenter.org/publications/t…

I wonder if the MCO tax will come up in the Perez meeting wsj.com/articles/how-c…

This email from a NYU-affiliated practice is the most hostile communication I have ever received from a healthcare provider in my 40 years of adulthood, and I’m including collection notices

How dare I assault their royal presence by seeking healthcare from them

The Capitol has high ceilings and stone walls which literally amplify the voices of demonstrators. A group of any size can sound thunderous.

9 Days after the budget was due the hall outside the Assembly chamber is filled with protesters demanding N.Y. raise taxes on the rich to fund housing, healthcare and education. The proposal has largely fallen out of talks but demonstrators say, it isn’t over until it’s over!

As someone who learned photography in the film-and-darkroom era, I'm constantly amazed by what an iPhone camera can do. This was a point-and-click shot.

' 'She has a tremendous amount of power she could use,' E.J. McMahon, a senior fellow at the Empire Center think tank, said.' @ejmej Empire Center