{"id":81270,"date":"2017-05-29T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T19:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=81270"},"modified":"2017-05-28T22:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T02:54:43","slug":"iroquois-healthcare-alliance-president-gary-j-fitzgerald-issues-statement-on-trump-budget-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=81270","title":{"rendered":"Iroquois Healthcare Alliance President Gary J. Fitzgerald issues statement on Trump budget proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=76957\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76957\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-76957\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Association-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Association-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Association-150x47.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Association-400x125.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Association.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cAs details of the President\u2019s budget begin to emerge, the Iroquois Healthcare Alliance, which represents 54 hospitals in Upstate New York, opposes any further cuts to the Medicaid program. \u00a0With New York State forced to brace for impact from nearly $5 billion in Medicaid cuts under the American Health Care Act, hospitals in Upstate are already on the verge of unsustainability. \u00a0Often the only provider of care throughout rural areas across Upstate New York, most hospitals are operating at negative margins. \u00a0Any additional cuts from government payers, which currently do not cover the cost of providing services, will begin the closing process for many of these safety-net providers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs details of the President\u2019s budget begin to emerge, the Iroquois Healthcare Alliance, which represents 54 hospitals in Upstate New York, opposes any further cuts to the Medicaid program. \u00a0With New York State forced to brace for impact from nearly $5 billion in Medicaid cuts under the American Health Care Act, hospitals in Upstate are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}