Paul Francis
Debunking the Empire Center Analysis Attributing Nursing Home Covid-19 Deaths to DOH Policy
There are two important facts that help account for why these transfers did not measurably increase deaths of nursing home residents ...
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Paul Francis
- Sep 5
Re-Examining the Cuomo Administration’s Nursing Home Policies During Covid-19
Four-and-a-half years after the Covid-19 pandemic began, people are still reckoning with nursing home policy decisions made by NYS officials
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Paul Francis
- Aug 8
The Medical Indemnity Fund and the Price of Good Intentions
The principal focus of this paper is the Medical Indemnity Fund , which was created in 2011 as part of the Medicaid Redesign Team...
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Paul Francis
- May 8
Fiscal Frameworks for New York State Government
By “fiscal frameworks,” I’m referring to two different types of frameworks...
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Paul Francis
- Apr 8
Transparency and Openness in Government and Public Policy
...this Commentary is more of a rumination about the challenges of creating not only transparency but “openness”...
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Paul Francis
- Mar 26
California Dreaming and the MCO Tax - Addendum
The purposes of this Addendum to my March 19 Commentary titled California Dreaming and the MCO Tax are to ...
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Paul Francis
- Mar 19
California Dreaming and the MCO Tax
The Health section of the one-house budgets the Senate and Assembly released last week upended the usual pattern.
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Paul Francis
- Feb 21
Analyzing Complex Public Policy Issues
I want to use the analysis of this proposal as an example to describe the process of analyzing complex public policy issues.
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Paul Francis
- Feb 6
The Dynamics of the New York State Budget Process
What I want to talk about today is the dynamics of the Budget process...
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Paul Francis
- Jan 31
Over-Engineering Against Risk
Governor Kathy Hochul presented the FY 25 Executive Budget for State fiscal year 2024-25 on Tuesday in Albany.
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Paul Francis
- Jan 19
Commentary #5: Week of January 15th, 2024
Governor Kathy Hochul presented the FY 25 Executive Budget for State fiscal year 2024-25 on Tuesday in Albany.
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Paul Francis
- Jan 12
Commentary #4: Week of January 8th, 2024
In the Health sector, the most significant announcement in the SOS was that the State has received approval from CMS of its 1115 waiver...
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Paul Francis
- Dec 29, 2023
Commentary #3: Week of December 25th, 2023
We think it’s important to understand the background of the increasing numbers of financially distressed hospitals in New York...
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Paul Francis
- Dec 21, 2023
Commentary #2: Week of December 18th, 2023
Here is a preview of our theory of the case, which we will set forth in a fair amount of depth next week.
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Paul Francis
- Dec 14, 2023
Commentary #1: Week of December 11th, 2023
This is the first of what I hope will become more frequent updates on issues of interest to the Step Two Policy Project (S2P) readership.
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