Faso amendment cuts aid Upstate 2.3 billion –
New Department of Health Analysis Shows That Repeal of Affordable Care Act Would Result in $13.7 million in Cuts for 13 Hospitals in 19th Congressional District
It was announced that an analysis by the New York State Department of Health shows that 13 hospitals in the 19th Congressional District would lose $13.7 million in funding if the Ryan/Collins/Faso healthcare repeal is passed, crippling their ability to provide critical health care services for local residents and jeopardizing hundreds of jobs across the district.
The massive cuts in funding to hospitals in Congressman Faso’s District underscore the devastating impact the combination of the Collins/Faso Amendment and Paul Ryan health care replacement plan will have on New Yorkers across the state. The following hospitals in the 19th District would be severely impacted with enormous cuts in their funding:
- Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital – $728,236 in cuts
- Catskill Regional Hospital – Harris – $3,013,299 in cuts
- Catskill Regional Hospital – Herman – $111,151 in cuts
- Cobleskill Regional Hospital – $270,332 in cuts
- Columbia Memorial Hospital – $2,444,439 in cuts
- Delaware Valley Hospital – $336,950 in cuts
- Ellenville Community Hospital – $336,950 in cuts
- Health Alliance – $1,367,237 in cuts
- Margaretville Memorial Hospital – $113,480 in cuts
- Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital – $3,720,827 in cuts
- Northern Dutchess Hospital – $854,905 in cuts
- O’Connor Hospital – $137,602 in cuts
- Tri Town Regional Healthcare – $161,111 in cuts
- District Total – $13,680,389 in cuts
Congressmen Chris Collins and John Faso have introduced an amendment to the American Health Care Act that would ban federal reimbursement for state Medicaid funds for local governments outside of New York City, cutting Medicaid for these local governments by $2.3 billion. When added to the $4.6 billion cost of the ACHA over the next four years, the total cost to the State would rise to $6.9 billion. Across New York, 2.7 million New Yorkers would face substantial loss in their current health care coverage, while enormous cuts in funding will threaten the quality and availability of care that New Yorkers need and deserve.
