Cuomo Medicaid Plan
May Cost County $1.9M
Reps Resolution Urges Governor
To Keep Zero Cap On Local Share
By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
COOPERSTOWN – Governor Cuomo's plan to close the state's $6 billion budget gap includes passing more Medicaid costs on to the counties, county Rep. Meg Kennedy, R-Hartwick/Milford/New Lisbon, told her colleagues at their March meeting this morning.
It could cost Otsego County a maximum of $1.9 million, she said, having been briefed as a member of the state Association of Counties board of directors.
That would require an "immediate 15-20 percent property tax hike in the county," board chairman David Bliss, R-Cooperstown/Town of Middlefield, observed.