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Today, Governor Paterson announced the NYS Insurance Department Superintendent, Eric Dinallo will resign – effective July 3, 2009 – to become the Henry Kaufman Visiting Professor of Finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Read the press statement here.
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This Saturday, single payer advocates across America will gather to rally in support of an improved Medicare for all (HR 676)! Click on the following for event details in your area: Hastings-On-Hudson New Paltz New York City Rochester White Plains To read more about single payer, see HealthCare-Now
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On May 27, 2009 at the New York Academy of Medicine, The National Coalition on Health Care sponsored a forum National Health Care Reform and its potential Impacts in NY. Congressman Charles Rangel started the morning reemphasizing that now is the crucial time for health care reform. The Congressman was followed by presentations that discussed [...]
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On Tuesday May 19 HCFANY held its annual spring meeting in Albany. 23 member organizations were present to discuss HCFANY’s position on the four Governor’s bills as well as hear presentations from Troy Oeschner Deputy Secretary for Health Insurance at the NYS Department of Insurance describe the Governor’s ambitious insurance reform bills. HCFANY supports much of these reform measures, [...]
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A new report, Promoting Equity and Quality in New York’s Public Insurance Programs, released by the Community Service Society (CSS) and funded by the New York State Health Foundation urges New York State to promote health equity more aggressively through its popular public insurance programs. These programs—Child Health Plus, Family Health Plus and Medicaid Managed Care—serve [...]
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A Families USA report released today, Too Great A Burden: Americans Face Rising Health Care Costs indicates nearly one in four Americans under 65 will spend more than 10% of their family income on health care in 2009. Of these people, 82.6% have health insurance. According to the report, in NY about 3 million insured [...]
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Yesterday, Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus participated in a conference call with the Center for American Progress Fund. The Senator referred to the debate on a public plan option as the ”800 pound gorilla” and claimed “nothing is off the table.” Senator Baucus also stated that that two or three public plan options will [...]
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Tomorrow, May 5 at 2pm, Assembly member Richard Gottfried, Chair of the Assembly Health Committee and Senator Thomas Duane, Chair of the Senate Health Committee will introduce their New York Health Plus bill. New York Health Plus would provide health care for all New Yorkers and all all premiums are paid for by the State. [...]
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Today, the New York Immigration Coalition–a HCFANY member organization–hosted a rally in Madison Square Park, NYC. Read more here. The rally, held as President Obama’s first 100 days in office come to a close, calls attention to three points that are critical for economic recovery: Just and Humane Immigration Reform Employee Free Choice Act Health Care for All For more on [...]
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