Gov. Kathy Hochul considers this a “transitional moment for the health care system” in New York.
More care is occurring outside hospitals. New technology is changing how care is delivered. And all the while, the financial – and emotional – sting of the Covid-19 pandemic lingers, with many health care institutions regularly banking on Albany for more funding.
Figuring out where things are headed will be a key role of the newly established Commission on the Future of Health Care, a 13-member advisory body tasked with coming up with strategic recommendations for the state’s health care system.
If it works as intended, the commission – chaired by Sherry Glied, a health care policy expert and dean of the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service – could play a significant role in shaping what the future of health care looks like in New York and be a crucial sounding board for the governor in crafting proposals.
“I have assembled this commission – with some of the top health care experts in the country – to help us build a resilient health care system that leads the nation and delivers every New Yorker the care they deserve,” Hochul said in a statement Nov. 2 in launching the commission.
The commission’s establishment makes good on Hochul’s pledge in her State of the State address in January to form such an entity, though it comes later than some experts anticipated.
Given the commission’s first set of annual recommendations won’t be due until the end of 2024, that means it likely won’t be much assistance to Hochul in budget negotiations early next year – when the state could be grappling with a deficit and may take a hard look at one of its major cost-drivers: the Medicaid program.
“If this group was going to come up with some clever new ideas, it would have been nice to have before she put out her budget,” said Bill Hammond, senior fellow for health policy at the Empire Center…
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