{"id":56168,"date":"2025-07-11T06:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/56168\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T06:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T06:42:14","slug":"dont-buy-the-ny-times-scare-mongering-about-new-yorkers-losing-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/56168\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t buy the NY Times’ scare-mongering about New Yorkers losing health care"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times\u2019 lead headline Thursday<\/a> was outright, deceptive fearmongering: \u201cWhy 1.5 Million New Yorkers Could Lose Health Insurance Under Trump Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet the story was little more than a rewrite of Democratic campaign releases.<\/a><\/p>\n

For starters, many of its figures come from health-care bosses and state officials ever eager to maximize their take in federal dollars \u2014 and with a keen interest in overestimating the damage.<\/p>\n

These sources, and the Times itself, won\u2019t talk much about the obscene amounts (tens of billions) that New York spends on government-subsidized health care \u2014 or how much of that bill Washington winds up footing.<\/p>\n

Let alone note that many who lose coverage under this law can \u2014 and surely will \u2014 find other plans to cover their health care, whether public or private.<\/p>\n

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Nor are they eager to admit how the state completely games the system <\/a>to suck up federal bucks.<\/p>\n

Or how individuals themselves game \u2014 or outright defraud \u2014 Medicaid.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Empire Center\u2019s Bill Hammond found that \u201cas many as 3 million New Yorkers appear to be receiving state-sponsored health coverage from Medicaid or the Essential Plan despite having incomes above the eligibility limits\u201d \u2014 but the state doesn\u2019t bother checking.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s millions who likely should lose their coverage because they don\u2019t qualify: Where\u2019s the injustice in the GOP\u2019s new law forcing the issue?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act aims to (slightly) restrain the growth of federal Medicaid outlays<\/a>, with an eye on keeping the program solvent for those who truly need it.<\/p>\n

It does this by targeting much of the waste and fraud: One key provision, for example, requires young, able-bodied Medicaid recipients to work at least 80 hours a month. The Times somehow doesn\u2019t explain what\u2019s wrong with that.<\/p>\n

Another cuts off federal aid for noncitizens: That includes hundreds of thousands in the Essential Plan, which is almost entirely funded by the feds, and reimburses providers at more than twice the Medicaid rate.<\/p>\n

And still, the plan has raked in so much federal dough that it\u2019s built huge surpluses \u2014 amounting to nearly an estimated $12 billion through the 2024-25 fiscal year.<\/p>\n

Yet people who qualify for the Essential Plan are not the poorest of the poor; indeed, they make too much to qualify for Medicaid (which in itself cover about a third of New York\u2019s population, going far above the poverty line).<\/p>\n

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Voters across the nation don\u2019t want to cover noncitizens (particularly illegal migrants); if New York politicians insist on it, they can find the cash elsewhere in the bloated state budget.<\/p>\n

Look: Medicaid outlays have soared this last decade, as Democrats juke the rules as a stealthy route to nationalized health insurance; this is a huge reason why Uncle Sam\u2019s deficits now reach $2 trillion a year. <\/p>\n

And the GOP law only begins to dent future increases.<\/p>\n

Liberals and Democrats are desperate to paint this modest restraint as dealing a harsh blow to the needy: Telling the truth won\u2019t help them win any voters back. <\/p>\n

How pathetic that they see their best interests served by leaving Medicaid, and the nation, on track to go bankrupt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times\u2019 lead headline Thursday was outright, deceptive fearmongering: \u201cWhy 1.5 Million New Yorkers Could Lose…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,69,4691,3168,16090,6501,3170,405,403,6985,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-56168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-editorial","11":"tag-health-insurance","12":"tag-illegal-immigrants","13":"tag-immigrants","14":"tag-medicaid","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-times","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-opinion","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114833243761189201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}