Jason Helgerson, Will Step Down As NYS Medicaid Director.
For people with physical disabilities, monthly costs to Medicare and Medicaid in the first year after transitioning into the community decreased by an average of 23 percent. For those with intellectual disabilities, average monthly costs dropped even more, by 30 percent.
Critics say the controversial legislation would severely damage accessibility protections laid out in the 27-year-old Americans with Disabilities Act. Currently, there is no companion bill in the U.S. Senate.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos will give away her entire salary from her first year on the job and some of the money is headed to a nonprofit serving those with disabilities.
A NYS Budget proposal calls for creation of a “health care shortfall fund” to compensate for unexpected reductions in federal funding. Most of the fund’s revenue would be derived from taxing the proceeds from converting nonprofit health plans to for-profit systems.
He knew he had the smarts for most jobs. But Pauley struggles with social and communications skills because he has autism.
“If such a female athlete filed a lawsuit seeking to have a separate category for female runners with different qualifying times, she would not have been asking to be guaranteed a spot in the state finals, but rather she would be asking to have the same opportunity to participate as her male peers,”
Assembly Democrats are likely to submit a budget proposal raising taxes on wealthier taxpayers, offsetting gains they made in the tax cut approved by Congress.
