CityLimits: City and State Budgets Pose Challenges for Aging New Yorkers

By Roshan Abraham
January 28, 2020

In mid January, the de Blasio administration released its 2021 preliminary budget. A week later the Cuomo administration released its proposed 2021 budget. Both budgets had to contend with a projected $6.1 billion projected shortfall linked to Medicaid and driven in large part by Managed Long Term care, a result of the city and state’s graying population.

Neither administration used its budget to try to provide solutions to the ballooning number of seniors in the Medicaid system, whose numbers will only grow. The Cuomo administration introduced a plan to essentially shift financial responsibility for that growth onto localities, setting up a 3 percent growth-rate cap that many counties with new enrollees would have trouble obeying. Both budgets will likely set up months of pushback from advocates for the aging before being finalized.

https://citylimits.org/2020/01/28/city-and-state-budgets-pose-challenges-for-aging-new-yorkers/