Medicaid

Looking for Votes, Rightbloggers Explore "Conservative Reform," Find Pretty Much Conservatism

Last week rightbloggers remained occupied with the recent D.C. scandals, which some of them expect to result in the President's impeachment; they even have a March on Washington and a shady poll to give them hope. We expect they will result in some sort of impeachment, if only of certain people's ju ... More >>

Wal-Marts in New York City? It's Looking Less and Less Likely

At least for now, it looks like Wal-Mart is deescalating its push to break into New York City's retail market. Although the big-box chain has reaffirmed its commitment to exploring opportunities to open up stores in the city, it seems clear that the company is tampering down the capacity of its cam ... More >>

Mr. Cuomo, You've Sure Got a Funny Way of Increasing Education Spending

Gov. Andrew Cuomo extended the state's impressive run of evading the fact that it owes New York City billions of dollars in educations funds. As we reported last week, the state has demonstrated an uncanny ability to pretend like the N.Y. State Court of Appeals didn't mandate that it pay the city ... More >>

Obama Announces Gun Control Proposals, Signs 23 Executive Orders

Just before noon, President Barack Obama addressed the nation to propose wide-ranging reform to curb gun violence in the country. "While there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely, no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy, every act of ... More >>

Free Contraception For All! Obamacare Gets Rid of Co-Pay For Birth Control, and Unsuprisingly Pisses Off The Catholic Church

Today brings free contraception for all (as long as you're one of the millions insured and you don't work for a Catholic organization), under the Affordable Care Act. Effective today, these provisions cover most major preventive services without a co-pay.According to data provided by Planned Parenth ... More >>

NYC Jury Hands Woman Malpractice MegaMillions

The verdict is out and it could make one woman wealthy beyond beliefA New York City jury is forcing three separate hospitals - Jacobi Medical Center (Bronx), Kings County Medical Center (Brooklyn) and the Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center (Jersey) - to pay a grand total of $120 m ... More >>

Has Andrew Cuomo Gone Crazy for Comissions?

We already knew that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration might not be the most consistent -- with its wavering on whistleblowers and mixed messages on transparency, and uncertainty about medical marijuana. Now, even more confusing news has emerged about the gov's policies. As detailed by the Wall ... More >>

In Arizona and Texas, A Planned Parenthood Free-for-All

"Family planning:" The wholly innocent term infuriates the pro-life community. To them, it connotes Big Government abortions, the movie Juno and everything that is "morally wrong" with women's reproductive health (apparently, there is a lot). Since the female health service organization Planned ... More >>

Karaoke For The Blind? Jewish Guild For the Blind Thinks Client's Vision Problems Make Her Mentally Deficient (Part 1)

Part 1 in a series. Last month, the Voice reported how the Jewish Guild for the Blind cut its part-time music therapist Debbie Moran, who was earning about $5,000 a year, allegedly due to "Medicaid budget cuts" -- despite the fact that the nonprofit's CEO, Dr. Alan Morse, had recently seen an 82% p ... More >>

The Jewish Guild For the Blind and Homes For the Homeless: See The Tax Returns Of Your Tax Dollars At Work

In this week's Voice cover story, we take a look at "The Nonprofit 1%," those people who head tax-exempt organizations which pay them so well, they're in the top one percent of earners. We take a particularly close look at the Jewish Guild for the Blind, where a $5,000 a year part-time music therapi ... More >>

Leaked City Document Sparks Fears And Frustrations for New Yorkers with HIV/AIDS

Sam LevinAdvocacy group VOCAL-NY at a City Hall rally earlier this year. ​An HIV/AIDS advocacy group has got its hands on an internal government document that the group says is cause for major concern -- and not just because the city is making policy changes behind closed doors, advocates said ... More >>

Gingrich 'Wounds' Romney; Latinos Demand Solutions from Obama

Newt Gingrich badly wounded Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primaries. Now, Romney has to revive his campaign in Florida -- or risk losing the Republican ticket, the Spanish-language daily reports. The three distinct winners in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina prove Republicans' uncertaint ... More >>

Anatomy Of A Greenpoint Bike Accident

If a car slams you off your bike, the cops won't do anything

The 10 Best Rightblogger Rants of 2010: Obama vs. Jesus, The Sperm Donor Menace, And More!

What a horrible year it's been. There's been something to annoy everyone, and everyone took full advantage: The health care bill, the Tea Party, the BP spill, the Ground Zero Mosque, the Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart rallies, the Republican Comeback, the enhanced TSA patdowns, WikiLeaks -- and every bi ... More >>

State Health Bigs Gave Pedro Espada a Five-Year Pass to Keep Buying Subsidized Sushi

​The Wall Street Journal's Greater New York section lives up to its name today with a revealing story by reporter Jacob Gershman about how state officials blithely ignored warnings five years ago that Pedro Espada's health care empire was running wild. The warning was raised in a January 2005 ... More >>

Illegal Immigrant's Heart Transplant is Covered. Her Rent is Not.

​In June, the Voice wrote about Julia Amparo-Alvarado, a 42-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala who faced death without a heart transplant. The mother of two was navigating a complex path of gaining insurance coverage despite her immigration status. Three weeks ago, Julia managed to get ... More >>

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big.

Gov. Paterson Counters Educators' Suit, Says He Has the Right to Delay Payment and Plaintiffs "Have No Standing"

In the true holiday spirit, Governor Paterson is being sued by a coalition of educators who say his fiat delay of disbursement of educational funds -- which he says it necessary because the state is broke -- is unconstitutional, and seek an injunction to get the state to pay up. Yesterday Paterson r ... More >>

Paterson Releases Delicious Stimulus $ Report: NYC Gets $8.16 Billion

Governor Paterson released a report today showing where the $18 billion that New York State got in stimulus money is going. You'll be pleased to hear that the counties comprising New York City receive by far the most American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds -- $8.16 billion. Hooray! Secon ... More >>

200 NYC "Tea Party" Protests Obama as Socialist, Communist, Hitler, Etc.

One of the anti-Obama "tea parties," inspired by a rant by CNBC's Rick Santelli and encouraged by prominent rightwing bloggers, was held in City Hall Park today between 2 and 3 p.m. The event drew between 200 and 250 highly enthusiastic supporters. A series of speakers drawn from the crowd denounc ... More >>

Die Yunnie Scum? Jeremiah Sees a "Yunnipocalypse"

We've been saying and saying and saying that New York seems poised for a return to a 70s state, full of crime and culture. The more reasonable Jeremiah's Vanishing New York posits a third way: a coming "Yunnipocalypse" in which the New York's regnant yunnies (short for "young urban narcissists," and ... More >>

Paterson Sees $12.5 Billion Deficit for '09; Plans "Painful" Cuts

Daily Flog 8/4/08: Dumping patients, probing Mary-Kate, shooting nose-biting suspect, ratting out cops

TABLOIDED: Who Got the NYPD Drug Scandal Exclusive?

The Slut Shot

Will the HPV vaccine encourage sexual freedom or right-wing lunatics?

Feds to New York: Quit Coddling Your Huddled Masses

Letters

The Squeeze Is On

Bad news for poor kids: Under new welfare law, state has to meet yet another 'quota' of cuts

Op Ed

Future docs learn abortion procedures in New York

Strike Report 12/22/05
It's Over (Almost), But Pension Battle for All U.S. Workers is Just Starting

Bush's Speech Today Ignores Cold Winter

Touting more tax cuts, President ignores bitter situation for most Americans

Morning Report 10/17/05
GOP Gets Bolder. Prepare to Be Crushed

Any Profit in a Storm

Stormy weather allows big oil to practice a crude sort of blackmail

Labor Costs

Union endorsements are dirty, if the mayor loses them

Rita and Weep

Texas, home to the country's largest refineries, has yet to be declared a disaster area by Bush

Bush's Unprecedented Attack on African Americans

Protest-Eligible Ranks Growing

We Are All New Yorkers

Bush makes war on the city's immigrant neighborhoods

Congress's Dubious Medicare Reform

How a New Prescription-Drug Plan Could Drive Up Prices for the Elderly

Sports

Roe v. Wade, Then v. Now

Thirty Years in the Life of the American Woman

Letters

Blue Cross Hijacked

How the Governor and the State's Most Powerful Union Shortchanged Health Consumers

A Tear in the Net

As Federal Dollars Disappear, No Security for City’s Poor

Queers Without Money

They Are Everywhere. But We Refuse to See Them.

Working it Out

Nation

System Failure

The Comptroller Says HS Systems Overcharged for Screening Disabled Welfare Recipients. So Why Did the Company Win a Fat New Contract?

Managing Maximus

City Contractor in the Spotlight

Welfare Policy Relapse

City Just Says No to Poor Addicts