State
- Governor Cuomo appointed a Medicaid redesign team to help cut spending and waste, and launched a new website to solicit ideas from the public. The governor also appointed Jason Helgerson, a Wisconsin official who won praise for cutting that state's Medicaid budget, to direct New York's program, though some expressed skepticism about the effectiveness of the Wisconsin model.
- The governor also announced more nominations today, keeping Brian Fischer as commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services and Dr. Michael Hogan as commissioner of the Office of Mental Health.
National
- Changes to Medicaid under Health Care Reform will save states and smaller governments a total of $40.6 billion to $131.9 billion between 2014 and 2019, the Urban Institute says in a new report.
- Meanwhile, the House announced that it would begin debating a bill to repeal the Health Care Reform laws next week, with a vote expected on Wednesday.
- The American Bar Association has started the Task Force on Preservation of the Justice System to address the severe underfunding of the nation's justice system.
- In a speech at a George Mason University symposium today, United States Senator Jim Webb renewed his efforts to establish the National Criminal Justice Commission. The university, whose event was titled, “Undoing the Effects of Mass Incarceration”, has worked closely with Senator Webb on his proposal, which was approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate Judiciary Committee last session.
- In an interview with The Crime Report, California's secretary of corrections discussed efforts to reform the state's troubled criminal justice system.
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