As seen at Insurance Journal:
In his first report to the state, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer included reforms of the state’s workers compensation and health care systems among the priorities in an ambitious legislative agenda.[...]
He cited workers’ compensation as a place to start to reduce the cost of doing business in the Empire State.
“We must start with our workers’ compensation system, a system that does not work for anyone: not the employers who pay some of the highest premiums in the country, and not the workers who receive some of the lowest benefits,” he said in his address.[...]
In the area of health care, he called for a major restructuring that includes the closing and consolidation of some hospitals, a shift in spending away from institutionalized nursing homes to community and home-based alternatives, an attack on Medicaid fraud and utilizing the state’s leverage to negotiate lower drug prices.
Well, we know he can generate headlines. It’ll be interesting to see if he can effect constructive change as governor.