"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything." ~John Kenneth Galbraith
Cuomo has appointed a Medicaid Redesign Team filled with Medicaid trough feeders and four legislators.
"In a majority of the State’s counties, Medicaid costs alone account for more than half of the entire county tax levy. New York spends more than twice the national average on Medicaid on a per capita basis, and spending per enrollee is the second highest in the nation. At the same time, New York ranks 21st out of all states for overall health system quality and ranks last among all states for avoidable hospital use and costs." Cuomo must have not heard that appointing a Fox in charge of the chickens doesn't work for the chickens.
“If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.” ~Charles Franklin Kettering
And Cuomo wasn't done, he appointed a Mandate Relief Squad filled with four legislators and the remainder are 9 who pay for mandates and 10 who benefit from mandates. While, "New York has the highest local taxes in America as a percentage of personal income – 79 percent above the national average;" this committee is stacked against the taxpayers.
Committees are “A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”`~John A. Lincoln
Questions of the day: 1. Since, "Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better."(Peter F. Drucker), why is Cuomo ignorant of the folly of Committees?
2. Does he think he'll fool the voters by shifting blame and say the committees failed, not me?
3. How much taxpayer money is wasted on these large committees and their expenses? Are the members serving without compensation and expenses?
