“Cuomo has asked the Obama administration for a waiver allowing him to spend $10 billion in Medicare money to change the way health care is delivered to poor New Yorkers,” offers the Times. De Blasio suggests that some of this money could be used to save the Brooklyn hospitals, while TV news shows anxious African American union hospital workers demanding that the near empty hospitals stay open to protect their jobs. Additionally, WNYC is running a series on the exploding health care costs.
