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At the end of December, New York Governor George Pataki and the State Legislature reached an historic agreement to provide medical coverage to many in the state who do not currently have health insurance. The bill also contained a provision, inserted at the Governor’s insistence, excluding legal immigrants from participating in the program for their first five years in the US. Gov. Pataki has a history of favoring the exclusion of recent immigrants from public services in his attempts to reduce the state’s spending on welfare in general. The administration estimates that excluding legal immigrants for five years will save the state at least 0 million over the next three years. While the provision may be cost saving, it has met with opposition from many groups, including both advocates for the poor and the office of the Mayor of New York City, Rudolph Guiliani. The mayor and the governor have previously disagreeed on the provision of social services to immigrants. Typically, the state favors reduced welfare spending and New York City, being home to most of the immigrants in the state, favors the continuation of programs already in place.
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