Small Business Majority submits Memorandum to the NY Health Joint Legislative Budget Committee on Health/Medicaid
Date:
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Small Business Majority offers this Memorandum to outline the necessary healthcare policy actions that small businesses require in the wake of federal cuts to Medicaid and the longtime epidemic of healthcare unaffordability in the state.
Lack of access to affordable healthcare has, for a long time, been a major barrier to entrepreneurship in this country, and New York has the second highest health expenditures per capita, following only the District of Columbia, with more than 740,000 New Yorkers reporting having medical debt.