Quick Partial Index (all are links) To Cuomo's Corruption And Its Cost

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Letter to Super DEBT Committee - Save $2 trillion dollars without harming Medicaid beneficiaries. link

Letter to Congress: save $200 billion in Medicaid in this year's budget.
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Congress notified of NY medicaid fraud by NYS link

Even with wildly optimistic pension earnings predictions, New York Debt per person including local debt is $24,195. For a family of four that is about $97,000. link

A. Latest on Chapter 10 Bankruptcy link 1 Link 2
B. Cuomo Budget Link 1 Link 2
C. NY Bonds Link1 Link 2 Link "Writing on Wall"

Cuomo as Governor
Medicaid Redesign Team: Medicaid Budget increases, not decreases Cuomo's Lobbyist Crony Heads Medicaid Redesign.
Cuomo's Lobbyist Crony renamed Consultant and all is well

1. Cuomo Stars as Captain Renault in Casablanca remake and link 2 Cuomo's repeat performances

2. Cuomo fails to follow Brown and cut his budget by 25%

3. More Cuomo fails to equal California's Brown

4. How States go bankrupt.

5. Cuomo and Medicaid headed nowhere

6. Look at Alternate currency: A Ron Paul, a $3 Cuomo, a California IOU

7. Cuomo's credit card taken away.

8. New Chapter 10 Federal Bankruptcy for States.

9. The new $3 Cuomo I.O.U.

10. Cuomo and NY Bondholders See The Writing On The Wall

11. New York Bankruptcy and Bond Devaluation

12. Cuomo Loads Up His Band Wagon With Committees For The Downhill Race With California

13. Ponzi to Madoff to Hevesi to DiNapoli; New York Learns About A Phony Safe 7.5% Pension Return

14 Economic Laws Lead Andrew Cuomo To A Hard Fall

15. Cuomo Meets "The Ghost Of NY Yet To Come"

16. Fiscal Disaster As Andrew Cuomo And His M.O. Are Slapped Down By Chinese Reality Checks

17. The New Word Order, "Nixon/Blogo/Cuomo" Predicates Andrew Cuomo's Fate

-Cuomo's prior corruption-

18. Cuomo Perfected His M.O. At HUD With $59 Billion Unaccounted For ; stealing the poor guys blind; Medicare $1.2 billion per year fraud; Multiple $50,000 bribes; Cuomo bungles criminal trial, rich executives walk;

19. The Second Cuomo's Smoking Gun: AEG Victory Celebration Needed Rev. Sharpton And Andrew Cuomo In The AEG Bag

20. Cuomo's Corruption Allowed $400 Million To Be Added to $1.2 Billion In NY Medicaid Fraud To Be Refunded By NY State To Federal Government

21. Andrew Cuomo Kisses And Makes Up With The Albany Swamp's Legislature Vermin, Reprobate Politicians, A Whore and Charles Rangel, Ashley Dupre, boss Vito Lopez, David Paterson, as obedient house boy, Andrew Farkas, who Cuomo accused of paying millions in kickbacks, and Allen Isaac (sex predator)

22. Sex Predator: Cuomo can clean his own nest

23. Cuomo changes pay to play to indirect payment and we're fooled

24. Cuomo bungles criminal prosecution

25. Cuomo covers up NY corruption

26. Cuomo covers up missing 9/11 Red Cross Money

27. $1.2 trillion loss resulted from the 50 % of $2.4 trillion in loans ordered by Cuomo at HUD, *Cuomo's smoking gun

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New York's Budgeted Medicaid Expenses To Rise to $15.1 Billion, While Cuomo And Medicaid Redesign Team Claim Cuts.

  Did the illusion of budget cutting by the NY State Medicaid Redesign Team work?   (The budget numbers reported below are just what NY pays out of its own pocket, other budget numbers report what New York State pays out in total and include New York's share and the federal funds passed through New York State for Medicaid expenses. See below*)


     "Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today accepted a report from the Medicaid Redesign Team which meets the Governor’s Medicaid spending target contained in his 2011-2012 budget by introducing a global cap on State Medicaid expenditures of $15.109 billion."


        $13.851 billion dollars was New York State Medicaid expenditures for the present year's budget (ends June 2011) as reported in New York Division of Budget Mid-year(December) report in Table 1,
but this was reduced by Federal Stimulus money received for this year's budget, which was
Approximately $5.9 billion of New York’s ARRA funding is projected to be used for General Fund budget balance in SFY 2010-11, with an additional $4.6 billion being passed through to local governments.


     Were you deceived by the illusion of Medicaid budget cuts?
1. This year, the NY State Medicaid expenditure was $13.8 billion and the cap on next year's expenditure will be $15.1 Billion?
2. Where is the missing federal stimulus $5.9 billion going to be conjured up from?
3. Is illusionary money able to balance a budget? 
4. What are the Counties going to do about their missing Federal $4.6 billion dollars and their increased $15.1 billion share that Cuomo's budget sends them?

*Notes on Medicaid Funding method in New York:
1. Medicaid is a joint federal-state program that provides health care to the poor. The feds split the Medicaid bill with the states, paying 50 percent of the program’s cost in richer states like New York and a larger fraction in poorer ones. Spending is open-ended: the more money states spend on Medicaid, the more money Washington sends them as its match. Crucially, though federal regulators set minimum requirements for who’s eligible and what services they receive, states can offer a range of additional services (prescription drugs, say), for which the feds nevertheless have to chip in. These federal dollars are a huge incentive for states to expand their health-care initiatives
2. For Medicaid, the Federal government pays 50%, New York State pays 25% and the counties, with no input pay, 25%
3. Some New York Medicaid facts:
    With 6.4 percent of the nation's population and 8.7 percent of all Medicaid enrollment, New York accounted for 14 percent of all Medicaid spending.
    New York's Medicaid program, including the local government share, was larger than the total budgets of 42 states.
    New York spent 25 percent more than California, whose Medicaid program covered twice as many people.
    New York's federal, state and local Medicaid spending exceeded the Medicaid budgets of Florida, Texas and North Carolina combined.