December 11, 2025

The NYS Council has been leading a statewide campaign to compel Governor Hochul and state lawmakers to carve our certain mental health and substance use disorder services from the state’s Medicaid managed care program.  

Last week an OpEd I wrote was published in the Albany Times Union and then picked up in the Empire Report, and in City & State.

Yesterday while some of my colleagues were in NYC testifying at the Assembly Workforce Hearing, I was being interviewed by Kate Lisa, Political Reporter for SPECTRUM News, at the Capitol.  See the link below.

We are grateful to Kate Lisa and also to Susan Arbetter, host of Capital Tonight, for airing the story at 7 pm this evening around NYS, and for giving some attention to this very important issue.  

More to come.  

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c5luAEN3byDy1bAcfPNaLDFQZ-5gCM1V/view?usp=sharing