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15 Years of Bad News on the Unisured

Posted March, 24 2009 by arianne

Today, in conjuction with Cover the Uninsured Week*, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) releases its report At the Brink: Trends in America’s Uninsured 1994-2007. This report averaged data from the 1994-1996 US Census Bureau and compared it to average from 2006-2007.  Nationally, in the last 15 years: Nine million more Americans became uninsured. Six million more working people became unisured. […]

HCFANY members to present at Health Care Forum

Posted March, 20 2009 by arianne

This Sunday, March 22, 2009 from 2-4 PM, the Association of Muslim Health Professionals is holding a health care forum. HCFANY members Elisabeth Benjamin, Director of Health Care Restructuring Initiatives at the Community Service Society; Mark Hannay, Director, Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign; and Elizabeth Swain, CEO of the Community Health Care Association of […]

5.6 million New Yorkers went without coverage last year

Posted March, 20 2009 by arianne

Today,  Families USA released a fact sheet– “New Yorkers Without Health Insurance“– highlighting that  77.2% of uninsured New Yorkers are part of working families. These findings piggy-back on a earlier report “Americans at Risk: One in Three Uninsured,” which provided a picture of how many Americas did not have health insurance in 2007-2008.  A teleconference featuring […]