The Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) has released poll results showing that nearly two-thirds of New Yorkers would rather see their taxes raised than close the state budget deficit by cuts to healthcare or education. The poll also shows that by a margin of 79 percent to 17 percent, registered New York voters oppose state budget policies that cut funding for Medicaid.
The poll found that a plurality of voters (37 percent) say New York spends too little on Medicaid, compared to 22 percent who say too much is spent. One in five voters thinks New York spends about the right amount of money on Medicaid.
More than three-quarters of the New Yorkers surveyed in the HANYS poll rate their local hospital as “good” or better, including 45 percent who rate the quality of their local hospital as either “excellent” or “very good.” Only 5 percent rated their local hospital as poor.
Read the poll results.
