Spitzer Delivers Harsh Rebuke to Senate Republicans

WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010

New York, NY —

Spending proposals from New York lawmakers would increase Governor Spitzer's first budget by hundreds of millions of dollars, adding funds to education, hospitals and nursing homes.

REPORTER: Spitzer says the Democrat-led Assembly's proposal to increase total spending by $600 million is too much. Spitzer aimed his sharpest criticism at the Republican-led Senate.

SPITZER: The necessary part of this conversation must be a willingness to make the hard decisions to understand that our health care system must be shifted. We must do better.

REPORTER: Health care spending alone would increase by $544 million under the Senate plan. This week, Spitzer and legislative leaders will begin negotiating a state budget by the April 1st start of the fiscal year. The governor wants to redirect the state's health spending from hospitals to neighborhood clinics and at-home care.

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