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Did anybody watch this? On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius made a guest appearance on the Daily Show to talk about the Affordable Care Act. She does a pretty good job of hashing out what’s in the law and what’s not, and Jon Stewart is, as always, just charming. In case you [...]
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From left: Lorraine Gonzalez, Children’s Defense Fund of NY, Kevin Keogh, Small Business Majority, Jennifer Torres, New York Immigration Coalition, Becca Talzek, Make the Road NY, Heidi Siegfried, New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage, Jasmine Burnett, Raising Women’s Voices. HCFANY held a short briefing this morning for coalition members and allies in the NYC area. For [...]
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As mentioned in the update to yesterday’s post, the proposed budget released yesterday included a new provision to establish a New York health insurance exchange (or “Health Benefit Exchange”). This was included in the Health and Mental Hygiene Article VII bill. The proposed language in this new iteration of the bill looks in many ways very [...]
Filed under: ACA, Comprehensive Coverage, Governor Cuomo, Insurance Exchange, New York State Budget | Tagged: ACA, budget, Insurance Exchange | Comments Off
Governor Cuomo is set to give his budget address today at 2 PM to outline his spending plan for the next year. Expected to be on the agenda, of course, is more on Medicaid. Some are speculating that he will talk about a state take-over of local county Medicaid expenses. Also expected on the agenda is talk of the [...]
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