More than 2 million people have been added to New York’s Medicaid program since 2001, according to the report. In 2001, roughly 15 percent of the state’s population was on Medicaid, and now that figure stands at 26 percent — about 10 percent higher than the national average.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to make it easier for people to apply to the program as the numbers grow larger, but he also plans to cap the Medicaid spending growth at 4 percent per year, the report said. The state has already saved $600 million in the first six months of its fiscal year in various cost-saving initiatives, such as the spending growth cap and a three-year phase-in to managed care for all Medicaid recipients.
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