Hochul stands up for New Yorkers’ health amid the – Latest News
Kudos to Gov. Kathy Hochul for doing proper by New Yorkers, regardless that it annoys a highly effective union.
By briefly suspending licensing necessities for nurses from different states to work right here, the gov has fairly rightly made it simpler for hospitals to keep functioning amid the ongoing nurses strike — and so allowed them to keep offering life-saving care.
It’s no everlasting resolution: Fill-in nurses aren’t low cost, and hospitals must (for instance) put off more-lucrative optionally available surgical procedures to prioritize the essential ones.
The strike, that’s, nonetheless slams their backside strains — simply not as a lot as giving in to the union’s calls for for a 33% pay hike over three years.
But the public is (largely) protected: The gov is doing her responsibility, even when it prices her votes and special-interest love.
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That’s a stark distinction to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who’s cheering on the strikers regardless that their calls for would value the metropolis big-time, since its public hospitals have already agreed to no matter pay hikes the non-public ones wind up conceding.
On high of ongoing cuts in federal help to New York’s public health-care spending, that would eat up money the mayor wants for the relaxation of his agenda — however we guess he figures more tax hikes will clear up all his issues.
For all our gripes with Hochul, New York is fortunate to have a minimum of one high government who retains a firm grip on actuality.
