Mandate Relief Council hears it from Mid-Hudson officials.

The article offers information on the public hearing of the Mandate Relief Council to discuss Medicaid cost held at the State University of New York (SUNY) in New York on February 27, 2012. The open forum is led by council members and Lieutenant Governor Bob Duffy and attended by local officials and district representatives. Moreover, participants asked officials on the reason why the state did not shoulder the Medicaid, pension and transportation costs.