Health-care amendment would reduce funding to nursing homes
An amendment to the Republican health-care plan, the latest stab at making the alternative to Obamacare more palatable to lawmakers, will decimate health-care coverage for the state’s oldest and most frail residents, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a press briefing on Thursday afternoon.
Introduced late Wednesday by U.S. Reps. Chris Collins, R-Clarence, and John Faso, R-Kinderhook, the amendment to the American Health Care Act prohibits federal reimbursement of the local share of Medicaid funds paid by counties.
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Stefanik also listed on her website 11 local officials who support the amendment because the say it offers property tax relief to residents.
Nonetheless, the governor said on Thursday that this belief is false, pointing to an analysis by the state Department of Health that shows 26 nursing homes in the 21st Congressional District would lose $29.8 million in funding if the Ryan/Collins/Faso health-care repeal is passed.
"It would cripple their ability to provide critical services for seniors, hurting New York’s most vulnerable citizens and jeopardizing hundreds of jobs across the district," he said. "The massive cuts in funding to nursing homes in Congresswoman Stefanik's district underscore the devastating impact the combination of the Collins/Faso amendment and Paul Ryan health care replacement plan will have on New Yorkers across the state."
Cuomo continued: "The Faso/Collins amendment is really a despicable attempt to buy votes at the cost of their constituents," Cuomo said. "These devastating cuts will cripple health-care services in communities across New York, with $29.8 million in cuts to nursing homes in the 21st District alone.”
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Unfortunately, Stefanik - who Governor Cuomo is attempting to correct - is my current Rep. Not that I'm surprised, since Paul Ryan is her mentor. Previously, we had Kirsten Gillibrand and I was hoping that decades of Republican representation here were over. 
But it appears to be party over everything for all of them who are going along with this. And, as happened with Trump, too many aren't going to wake up until it's too late...
The Republicans are lining up behind Trump and his failed "health care" plan which will doubtless kill those who are poorer and older and who are going to lose access. While the Democrats, like Governor Cuomo, are doing their best to point that out. As has been true for the Republicans throughout the Obama administration, their loyalty is not to constituents, but to party. Unfortunately, the one who is quoted, Elise Stefanik, happens to be mine. *sigh* We need to vote them out!
And all of the supporters of this harmful policy are Republicans who, as usual, are impervious to what are obvious facts.
Who's writing the bill? Mr Potter from It's a Wonderful Life??? 
