Byline: IAN FISHER New York Times
NEW YORK -- Gov. George Pataki has decided to use a one-time cash subsidy to keep down health-insurance costs for some of the state's sickest people, officials said Sunday. The plan seems aimed at bolstering the governor's record on health issues, as well as preventing an outcry over surging premiums that could bedevil his re-election campaign.
In the last several weeks, two of the state's largest insurers, Oxford Health Plans and Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, have sought enormous increases for a small but costly group -- the 110,000 New Yorkers who buy health insurance on their own. These policyholders, who tend to be far …
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