Kudos to Gov. Kathy Hochul for doing right by New Yorkers, even though it annoys a powerful union.<\/p>\n
By temporarily suspending licensing requirements for nurses from other states to work here, the gov has quite rightly made it easier for hospitals to keep functioning<\/a> amid the ongoing nurses strike \u2014 and so allowed them to keep providing life-saving care.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no permanent solution: Fill-in nurses aren\u2019t cheap, and hospitals have to (for example) put off more-lucrative optional surgeries to prioritize the crucial ones.<\/p>\n The strike, that is, still slams their bottom lines \u2014 just not as much as giving in to the union\u2019s demands for a 33% pay hike over three years.<\/p>\n But the public is (largely) protected: The gov is doing her duty, even if it costs her votes and special-interest love.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGet opinions and commentary from our columnists\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n That\u2019s a stark contrast to Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who\u2019s cheering on the strikers<\/a> even though their demands would cost the city big-time<\/a>, since its public hospitals have already agreed to whatever pay hikes the private ones wind up conceding.<\/p>\n On top of ongoing cuts in federal support to New York\u2019s public health-care spending, that could eat up cash the mayor needs for the rest of his agenda \u2014 but we guess he figures more tax hikes will solve all his problems.<\/p>\n For all our gripes with Hochul, New York is lucky to have at least one top executive who retains a firm grip on reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kudos to Gov. Kathy Hochul for doing right by New Yorkers, even though it annoys a powerful union.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[304,1948,426,9,24,55,54,23187,56,299,23289,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-100772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-editorial","9":"tag-hospitals","10":"tag-kathy-hochul","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-nurses","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-opinion","18":"tag-strikes","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}