Health Care Reform Working Group: Final Report

November 17, 2004 Health Care Reform Working Group: Final Report Several stark and urgent realities drive the need for reform of New York's healthcare system. Healthcare costs are out of control, rising at a rate that far outpaces state revenue growth and putting severe fiscal stress on the State and its localities. The problem is not lessening. Medicaid expenses are expected to grow at a staggering rate of 9.5% in 2005 . . .