In response to the July 21st deadline HCFANY commended the New York State Departments of Health and Insurance (“the Departments”) for welcoming public comments to their draft modeling instructions. HCFANY is pleased to see the inclusion of several parameters such as: the inclusion of immigrants in all proposals, the use of the Family Health Plus [...]
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As mentioned before, HCFANY is on record opposing a bad bill that would expand Healthy NY. Today, the American Cancer Society (ACS) issued its own letter urging that Governor Paterson disapprove the Healthy NY insurance bill, A395/S6385. In its letter, ACS stated that Healthy NY’s inadequate drug coverage makes it unpopular among businesses and their employees and offers a false insurance promise [...]
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In March, the state finalized a contract with the Urban Institute (UI) to model out various proposals for health insurace reform in order to provide quantitative analyses on the cost and coverage of various proposals. The state has recently publicized the instructions given to the UI in order to guide the modeling process, and has opened them [...]
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HCFANY has sent a letter to Governor Paterson urging him to veto A.395/S6385, which would eliminate the anti-crowd out measures in the Healthy New York Statute. The letter explains HCFANY’s concerns in detail, but briefly, we urge this veto for three reasons:
The bill encourages small businesses that do not provide coverage and uninsured individuals to sign up for Healthy [...]
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