Life for NY’s health insurers just got a little more interesting

Posted on February 15, 2012 by hcfany

It’s getting to be that time of the year again, and we all dread to hear those three little words…”You’re being audited.” [cue scary Psycho knife sound] Thankfully, it’s not consumers who have to worry this time – its our health insurers.  The Department of Financial Services (DOFS) announced today that it will soon start performing random audits [...]

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Diagnosis: Bankruptcy

Posted on February 15, 2012 by hcfany

Photo courtesy of Dan Cepeda, Star-Tribune It’s interesting that as the health reform debate sputters on, more and more personal stories are coming out of the woodwork to make the case for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).   More often than not, these are stories of regular Joe’s like you and me who just happened [...]

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Understanding your health benefits may soon get easier

Posted on February 10, 2012 by hcfany

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) yesterday released it’s final regulations regarding the information that health insurance companies will have to give to consumers about their plans in order to allow them to compare plans and make informed choices.  Basically, it’s a simple, easy-to-understand way to explain to folks what is covered and what [...]

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How the ACA will bring fairness back to health insurance

Posted on February 9, 2012 by hcfany

A new Commonwealth Fund report released yesterday tackles the existing health insurance inequities between people with higher and lower incomes.  The report finds that, nationally, nearly 3 in 5 adults in families earning less than 133% percent of the federal poverty level (about $14,000 per year for an individual) were uninsured at some point in 2011, and 2 in 5 were uninsured for one or more [...]

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More folks warming up to health reform

Posted on January 31, 2012 by hcfany

With the ongoing GOP presidential debates there’s been so much negativity floating around the health reform conversation.  So, it’s nice when every now and then something positive is able to break through all the rhetoric. This week, Harris Interactive/Health Day released the results of their latest poll on health reform.  Naturally, they did find that Americans are [...]

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Sebelius breaks it down on the Daily Show

Posted on January 27, 2012 by hcfany

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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Good times.

Posted on January 24, 2012 by hcfany

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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Don’t believe everything you read.

Posted on January 20, 2012 by hcfany

With the idea that all people deserve quality, affordable health care now such a partisan issue in the presidential race, it’s no wonder the media has been flooded with articles, editorials, polls and research on the topic. You could easily read one thing telling you Americans love health reform and then turn around and see another saying Americans hate health reform, with both [...]

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The Exchange Bill is back!

Posted on January 18, 2012 by hcfany

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 [...]

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Cute! And educational. But, more importantly, cute!

Posted on January 13, 2012 by hcfany

Well, those wizards at the Kaiser Family Foundation have done it again.  They have found yet another way to blow this blogger’s mind.  This time, in the form of a 9 minute cartoon on health reform. It’s titled “Health Reform Hits Main Street,” and is narrated by – who else? – Cokie Roberts.  Never thought I would see a cartoon narrated [...]

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