As state
legislators return to Albany Wednesday, the health care industry groups
that will be fighting for funding said they're worried that federal cuts
will force the governor and the Legislature to make difficult choices.
"I expect
that this year you'll see proposed cuts at a magnitude you haven't seen
in years," said Paul Macielak, the outgoing president and CEO of the
state Health Plan Association. Macielak retired at the end of last year,
with Eric Linzer, the former executive vice president at the
Massachusetts Association of Health Plans, taking over.
One of the
trade group's priorities in the upcoming session is urging the state to
introduce measures that would stabilize the individual insurance market.
Congress' tax-reform bill repealed the individual mandate, which
required people to buy insurance or pay a fine. When the repeal takes
effect in 2019, fewer people are expected to buy insurance, particularly
healthier individuals whom insurers rely on to balance out the high
health costs of their sicker members.
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Source: CRAIN'S New York Business (via Empire Report New York)
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