Don’t Be Disabled in New York
In New York, it is unusually common for developmentally disabled people in state care to die for reasons other than natural causes.
One in six of all deaths in state and privately run homes, or more than 1,200 in the past decade, have been attributed to either unnatural or unknown causes, according to data obtained by The New York Times that has never been released.
The figure is more like one in 25 in Connecticut and Massachusetts, which are among the few states that release such data.
More from The New York Times.
New York State has Medicaid eligibility thresholds more generous than most other states. It also spends far more on Medicaid than any other state by a wide margin. However, it pays provider reimbursement rates that are much lower than just about any other state – often less than one-third what private insurers would pay for the same service. This all sounds like a recipe for substandard quality Medicaid providers.
This is a crisis in NY healthcare!
That makes sense. The more people they try to cover with generous eligibility thresholds, the more expensive New York’s Medicaid program will be. The New York state government had to have that known that years ago.
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I would be interested to see death rates from a larger number of states.