Half-a-Million and One Broken Promises: New Yorkers Still Waiting for Health Insurance Promised More Than Four Years Ago and Local Government Taxpayers Still Waiting for State Relief for Medicaid Costs

(Released July 14, 2004) Three and a half years after Governor Pataki and legislative leaders promised to provide health coverage for one million New Yorkers with revenue from a new cigarette tax, more than half a million working families are still waiting for health coverage, even though the state has collected the taxes.

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