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Congressman In Oneonta Discussing ACA’s Future

OBAMACARE REFORM SPURRED RALLIES Congressman In Oneonta Discussing ACA’s Future By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Congressman John Faso, R-19, is in Oneonta today, meeting with key players in the medical community on the future of the Affordable Care Act. The meeting has been sought for several weeks by Dr. Carolyn Wolf-Gould, director of Bassett Healthcare’s Fox Hospital Susquehanna Family Practice and The Gender Wellness Clinic, and county Rep. Kay Stuligross, D-Oneonta.…

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Zephyr Telling Supporters She Won’t Run In 19th Again

Zephyr Telling Supporters She Won’t Run In 19th Again By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Zephyr Teachout has begun advising supporters she won’t run for Congress next year in New York’s 19th District, which includes Otsego County. Word was circulating today that the Fordham University law professor who moved to Dover Plains last year to contend in the 19th would not challenge freshman Republican John Faso next year. Teachout’s brother took a message earlier this evening at their parents Staatsburg home,…

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‘Repeal, Replace’ Bill Phony, Backers Know It, Streck Says

‘Repeal, Replace’ Bill Phony, Backers Know It, Streck Says Former Bassett CEO Speaks To Providers At Otesaga By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – The American Health Care Act, proclaimed as a replacement for Obamacare, is “stealth” legislation that doesn’t do what its supporters purport it will – and they know it. Former Bassett CEO Bill Streck delivered that message today at a daylong symposium of  the Leatherstocking Collaborative Health Partners at The Otesaga.  The LCHP includes all providers…

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Repeal Of Obamacare Will Hit County Hard

BILL STRECK’S MESSAGE HOME: Repeal Of Obamacare Would Hit Here Hard The repeal of the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – would leave 5,700 Otsego County people uninsured, retired Bassett President/CEO Bill Streck, now chief medical and health systems innovation officer at HANYS (the state’s hospital association), told a mostly medical-sector crowd of 75 at Templeton Hall in Cooperstown this evening.  Shifting Medicaid from an entitlement to block grants might raise county government’s costs by $700,000, he said.  He also said U.S. Rep.…

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EVERYTHING GOES SEN. SEWARD’S WAY

ELECTION NIGHT 2016 EVERYTHING GOES SEN. SEWARD’S WAY By JIM KEVLIN • for www.AllOTSEGO>com ONEONTA – Eight months ago, Otsego County’s veteran state senator, Jim Seward, was reeling from the body blow of a bladder cancer diagnosis. He fought back, underwent surgery April 14, and by early summer was declared cancer free, returning to his Oneonta office and his Capitol office on June 1. This evening, he was on top of his political world: • He was expected to turn…