“I thank Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration for coming to an agreement that will allow New York State to reinvest an $8 billion lifeline in our health care system. This is a crucial step that my local elected colleagues and I have been urging for to take Brooklyn hospitals off life support and give them needed aid. Resources like these will help advance the essential work of improving health care in our borough, an effort which must include patients, physicians, providers and political leaders alike in partnership.”
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