Additionally, state funding would be combined with federal funds that are currently received for Medicare, Medicaid and Child Health Plus to create the New York Health Trust Fund. The state would also seek federal waivers that will allow New York to completely fold those programs into New York Health. The local share of Medicaid funding would be ended, offering major property tax relief for New Yorkers. 

This is not the first time the Assembly has passed such a bill, having done so in 2015 and 2016, but both times further efforts were quashed in the Senate, according to Mic. This time, however, a Senate caucus called the Independent Democratic Caucus, which does not caucus with the rest of the Democrats, has signed off on the bill, meaning that the measure needs only one more Senate vote to pass.