Trump administration cancels $8B health care grant for New York: Cuomo

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Trump administration cancels $8B health care grant for New York: Cuomo
Posted: 5:01 PM, Feb 24, 2020
Updated: 7:11 PM, Feb 24, 2020
By: Lauren Cook
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the Trump administration canceled an $8 billion grant that funds Medicaid and other health care initiatives in New York.


NEW YORK — The Trump administration is canceling an $8 billion health care grant for New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.

The funding was initially granted in 2014, and allowed the state to transition from a hospital-driven system to a more cost-effective, community-based system, according to the governor. The lack of grant money will cost New York $600 million in 2020, Cuomo said, adding that the Medicaid program will be hit hard.

“If there's one area that you'd think should be beyond politics, it's health care,” Cuomo said during a news conference on Monday. “These are needy New Yorkers; they're primarily senior citizens, who are hurt.”

Cuomo denounced the decision as President Donald Trump’s latest attack on New York, pointing out the recent suspension of the state’s participation in the Trusted Traveler Programs and the federal government’s delay in approving congestion pricing in New York City.

“In and of itself, it is very counterproductive and hurtful to this state, but when you view it in the series that are going on, it is even more disturbing,” Cuomo said. “Because this is not just the federal government taking an isolated action that is hurting the state. There is a continued pattern and series of these actions. Connect the dots and you see the line.”

The governor also said his administration plans to work with New York’s representatives in Congress to fight the decision.

[Squinch]

1. New York state is a donor state. We give more to the federal govt.than we get back.

I think we should stop doing that.

[2naSalit]

7. Probably. ...nt

[Iliyah]

2. During a possible pandemic?

[Under The Radar]

3. The game of politics used to be like red rover, now it is more jousting.

Or boxing with no referee

[blm]

4. Wow. What an asshole move.

[Under The Radar]

5. I do believe a good attorney could find a way to charge Trump

for all of the deaths and human suffering that these sick decisions coming from him cause.

[Tanuki]

6. Monster45 kicked his sick, disabled great nephew off the Trump health plan to spite

the baby's parents. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/trump-files-donald-sick-infant-medical-care/

"Donald Trump likes to get his way, and he’s not above cutting off a sick infant’s health coverage to make it happen.

The story begins after the death of Trump’s father, Fred Sr., in 1999. As David Cay Johnston explains in his book The Making of Donald Trump, Fred Sr. had written a will after the death of his oldest son, Fred Jr., known as Freddy, in 1981. The will left the majority of Fred Sr.’s wealth to Donald and his surviving siblings. Freddy’s family was largely cut out.

When Fred Sr. died, Freddy’s children sued, claiming that the will “had been ‘procured by fraud and undue influence’ by Donald and the other surviving siblings,” according to Johnston.

Johnston writes that medical insurance had consistently been provided to the family through Fred Sr.’s company. This coverage was crucial for Freddy’s grandson (Donald’s grandnephew), who suffered from seizures and later developed cerebral palsy. So crucial, in fact, that a letter sent from a Trump lawyer to the insurer after the patriarch’s death in 1999 said that “all costs” for the sick child’s care should be covered, regardless of caps on the plan or medical necessity, according to Johnston. That didn’t last long.

A week after the lawsuit was filed in court, Freddy’s son (Donald’s nephew) received a letter informing him that the health insurance would be discontinued, meaning his ill son would be left without coverage. Donald openly admitted to the New York Daily News that he and his siblings took this action out of revenge.


"Why should we give him medical coverage?” Trump said, adding, “They sued my father, essentially. I’m not thrilled when someone sues my father.” ...(more)

[2naSalit]

8. This is precisely the example of abuse of power

the House Impeachment Managers spoke of just last fucking month.

Weaponizing aid... it's his MO and those fucking traitors left him in office.

[Flaleftist]

9. Was this not allocated by Congress?

Is he breaking the law again?

[smirkymonkey]

10. What a vindictive, spiteful bastard.

He is truly evil.