Comments for HCFANY http://hcfany.org the most up-to-date place for NY health reform Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:44:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on State orders health plans to refund $114.5 M in overcharges by Citizen Action of New York – Health Plans to Refund $114.5 Million in Overcharges http://hcfany.org/2011/11/10/state-orders-health-plans-to-refund-114-5-m-in-overcharges/#comment-1809 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:44:49 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=5294#comment-1809 [...] Wednesday, Governor Cuomo announced that he was ordering 11 health insurance companies to refund $114.5 million to policy hold… who were overcharged for their health insurance premiums in 2010. State regulations require that [...]

]]> Comment on Health Reform Implementation in NY by You asked for it! « HCFANY http://hcfany.org/policy-center/federal-health-refor/health-reform-implementation-in-ny/#comment-1806 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:21:34 +0000 http://hcfany.org/#comment-1806 [...] Health Reform Implementation in NY [...]

]]> Comment on Prior Approval Passes! by Out-of-control insurance rate hikes reaching fever pitch in NY « HCFANY http://hcfany.org/2010/06/08/prior-approval-passes/#comment-1784 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:56:04 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=2366#comment-1784 [...] New York State Insurance Department reinstated the prior approval process for health insurance premium rate increases in 2010, however it is not yet clear that the process [...]

]]> Comment on America’s Families Are Drowning in Medical Debt by busy mom http://hcfany.org/2008/10/02/americas-families-are-drowning-in-medical-debt/#comment-1756 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:07:42 +0000 http://hcfany.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/americas-families-are-drowning-in-medical-debt/#comment-1756 1,903 dollars in medical debt. I wish!!! I have over 10,000 and I have insurance. And that 10,000 does not even count the co-pays for office visits and the monthly prescriptions.

]]> Comment on Health reform makes for healthier women by Health reform makes for healthier women « Health Policy Hub http://hcfany.org/2011/03/24/health-reform-makes-for-healthier-women/#comment-1500 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:17:25 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=3808#comment-1500 [...] To mark the first anniversary of the Affordable Care Act this week, Health Policy Hub will be cross posting blogs from our state partners that show how people in their states are benefiting from the law. This blog was originally posted on the Health Care for All New York blog. [...]

]]> Comment on Medicaid Redesign Team in Full Swing by Tweets that mention Medicaid Redesign Team in Full Swing « HCFANY -- Topsy.com http://hcfany.org/2011/01/25/medicaid-redesign-team-in-full-swing/#comment-1469 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:38:49 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=3459#comment-1469 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by HealthCareForAll NY, NYLPI Health Justice. NYLPI Health Justice said: RT @hcfany #Medicaid Redesign Team in Full Swing: http://t.co/rQfuTmS. Click link for list of hearing locations and times. [...]

]]> Comment on The Roadap to Health Reform Implementation in New York by andrew http://hcfany.org/2010/08/17/the-roadap-to-health-reform-implementation-in-new-york/#comment-1408 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:03:46 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=2471#comment-1408 Dear Influential New Yorker:

City Limits recently published this amazing article on the impact the health care repeal legistlation would have on New Yorkers. Please post on your website/blog and share with your colleagues.

http://www.citylimits.org/news/articles/4274/how-health-care-repeal-would-affect-new-york

]]> Comment on National Health Care Reform Campaigns by t droege http://hcfany.org/policy-center/federal-health-refor/national-health-reform/national-health-care-reform-campaigns/#comment-1396 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:44:18 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?page_id=412#comment-1396 I would like to see my tax money diverted from the military and applied to health care / education / and infrastructure and other social programs that would benifet our society not the defense industry, TD

]]> Comment on New York’s Pre-Existing Insurance Plan is Open by Rodney http://hcfany.org/2010/08/20/new-yorks-pre-existing-insurance-plan-is-open/#comment-1366 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:28:25 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=2473#comment-1366 Great Post.

These PCIP programs are to be in place until 2014, which is when affordable health insurance companies will be required to accept all applicants regardless of their health condition and pre-existing problems.

]]> Comment on October 25, 2010 Health Care Advisory Committee Meeting by Gov.’s Advisory Committee to Establish Work Groups « HCFANY http://hcfany.org/policy-center/federal-health-refor/health-reform-implementation-in-ny/the-health-reform-advisory-committee/october-25-2010-health-care-advisory-committee-meeting/#comment-1275 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:40:43 +0000 http://hcfany.org/#comment-1275 [...] To view the documents distibuted at the October 25th meeting, click here. [...]

]]> Comment on Heathcare Reform Will Save Small Businesses by JR MATTINGLY http://hcfany.org/2009/06/11/heathcare-reform-will-save-small-businesses/#comment-1267 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:49:24 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=1283#comment-1267 Is this an ad for Obamacare before we even know all of what’s in it. Half the people who passed still haven’t read it. I guess that is not important now. They won’t be around long anyway. 11-2-10

]]> Comment on New York’s Small Businesses get help to provide health care by michaelwebster http://hcfany.org/2010/07/20/new-yorks-small-businesses-get-help-to-provide-health-care/#comment-1156 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:39:15 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=2436#comment-1156 Nice overview.

I would like to point out an additional way to access the health tax credit: combining a limited medical benefits program with a high deductible HMO.

I go through the example here: http://www.franchise-info.ca/supply_chain/2010/07/Small-business-tax-credits.html

]]> Comment on Sign the Petition to tell Congress “It’s Time to Act” by Patricia Ball http://hcfany.org/2010/03/04/sign-the-petition-to-tell-congress-its-time-to-act/#comment-1112 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:02:32 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=2087#comment-1112 Please do not, I repeat do not end social secuity benefits. The majority of American’s have been paying into this system their entire working life. Now when it is time middle class and working class American Citizens would not be able to exist without the social security that has been promised to them their entire life. This country is becoming a ghost of what it was and what it could be. Please, in the name of all that is good, do the right thing. Do not vote out people’s future.

]]> Comment on Sign the Petition to tell Congress “It’s Time to Act” by Brad Hatch http://hcfany.org/2010/03/04/sign-the-petition-to-tell-congress-its-time-to-act/#comment-1111 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:44:52 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=2087#comment-1111 Please keeps raise entitlements instead of cutting more. Tax wealthy individuals and corporations to pay for any short fall and spend more on government stimulus to put people back to work. Cut pentagon spending by at least a third.

]]> Comment on 15 Years of Bad News on the Unisured by Gilbert Kropidlowski http://hcfany.org/2009/03/24/15-years-of-bad-news-on-the-unisured/#comment-1078 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:47:19 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=921#comment-1078 I look forward to more good info.

]]> Comment on Congress Extends COBRA Subsidy Temporarily – Call today and urge them to finish the job by Annette bailey http://hcfany.org/2010/04/16/congress-extends-cobra-subsidy-temporarily-%e2%80%93-call-today-and-urge-them-to-finish-the-job/#comment-1031 Wed, 26 May 2010 12:40:44 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=2250#comment-1031 People need permanent healthcare.

]]> Comment on Health Care is Better In America Today by Jill Herendeen http://hcfany.org/2010/03/22/health-care-is-better-in-america-today/#comment-873 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:07:31 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=2131#comment-873 The health care “reform” bill is obviously a good thing for private insurance companies, but I think it remains to be seen whether it’s significantly “better” for the country, or the state of NY. I’m not a lawyer, but being forced to buy private health insurance, without having any direct say into its quality, sounds like a breach of contract law to me. Considering the FACT that most of the industrialized world already gets UNIVERSAL health care for half of what we’re now spending (whether or not we are individually getting any of that care), it’s ludicrous, insane, and criminal that we here in the USA somehow cannot have the same general benefits, or that it’s “too complicated” to figure out how to get the same general benefits. Just pick a country, any country, and ask them how they do it. Our current “reform” is just a very slight variation on “Pay or Die” which, as is obvious to anyone who isn’t working directly or indirectly for the private health insurance industry, really MUST GO.

]]> Comment on NY Senate Budget Resolution Omits Prior Approval by Jill Herendeen http://hcfany.org/2010/03/22/ny-senate-budget-resolution-omits-prior-approval/#comment-872 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:56:52 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?p=2138#comment-872 This is a good reason, by itself, why health care shouldn’t have anything to do with a private insurance industry. Most of the industrialized world NOW has universal health care, and they spend half of what we’re currently spending (regardless of whether we’re actually getting any of the health care that we’re subsidizing). They do this by removing profit from the picture, even when they HAVE private insurance companies. Some countries save money by making the gov’t directly investigate questions of malpractice, rather than farming the job out to for-profit industries. (If the gov’t certifies the competency of clinicians, why shouldn’t it investigate allegations of incompetency itself?) And as for actual health insurance…well, what does any private health insurance company add to health CARE that justifies its jacking up the price of that care by 20-30%?

]]> Comment on CSS Calls for Economic Crisis Health Coverage by sizzix big shot http://hcfany.org/2008/10/17/css-calls-for-economic-crisis-health-coverage/#comment-870 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:20:25 +0000 http://hcfany.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/css-calls-for-economic-crisis-health-coverage/#comment-870 I normally jump all over the internet because I have the tendancy to read a lot (which isn’t always a great idea because many blogs just copy from each other) but I have to say that yours contains some genuine substance! Thanks for stopping the trend of just being another copycat site! ;-)

]]> Comment on July 2009 by Teyla Emmagan http://hcfany.org/in-the-news/archives/july-2009/#comment-856 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:20:42 +0000 http://hcfany.org/?page_id=1524#comment-856 Nice post, intresting read. Keep posting and I’ll come back for some more reading! Thanks!

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