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Got 5 minutes to kill? Or, maybe you are super busy but need to cleanse the ol’ mental palate? Well, the Kaiser Family Foundation just put out a nifty little quiz to test your knowledge on the uninsured. Why not give it a try? It’s short – 10 questions – but some of them are a little [...]
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If so, then you are in luck! Yesterday, HCFANY’s own Elisabeth Benjamin made a guest appearance on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show to talk about Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order and what it means for New York. Specifically, she goes over what’s at stake for consumers, why the Governor needed to take action via Executive order, and [...]
Filed under: ACA, Federal health reform, Governor Cuomo, Insurance Exchange, New York State Politics, Premiums, Uninsured | Tagged: ACA, Andrew Cuomo, Insurance Exchange, small business | Comments Off
He did it!!! Today at noon, Governor Cuomo issued an Executive Order to establish a New York State Health Insurance Exchange (#42). It’s been a long and rocky road in getting this thing established. And, while this has proved to be a contentious issue in our state legislature, no amount of partisan folly can deny that [...]
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Well, it’s been over two weeks since the news broke that Governor Cuomo was planning to issue an Executive Order to establish a New York Health Insurance Exchange, and nearly as long since Senate Republicans publicly stated that they would not oppose this move. And yet…we’re still waiting. Despite false rumors of a late-night Good Friday/Passover Executive Order & press event last week, [...]
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As we wait with bated breath for any news of Governor Cuomo’s impending Executive Order to establish a NY health insurance Exchange, I thought it might be a good idea to give a quick overview of what sort of timeline New York is working with here. And, what better way to do so than with [...]
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Yesterday wrapped up the final day of ACA oral arguments before the Supreme Court and the future of the health reform law still remains unclear. The final day of arguments focused on two main points: Can the individual mandate be separated from the rest of the law, and does the law’s Medicaid expansion put undue [...]
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So, Day 2 of the oral arguments on the ACA challenges before the Supreme Court wrapped up yesterday, and the debates heard were significantly more lively than those of Day 1. First on the table was the basic question of whether or not Congress has the power to say that uninsured people have to buy health insurance. To this, [...]
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The ACA may have saved Raymond Owens’s life. Raymond and his wife Adele have owned a flooring contracting business for 25 years and their three children are the focus of their life. Their quest for a better life for their family became more difficult when Adele was laid off from Home Depot two years ago. [...]
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The AARP today released a statewide poll that found that voters aged 30-64 strongly support the establishment of a NYS Health Insurance Exchange through this year’s State budget. Specifically, they found that: 3 in 5 registered voters in NY age 30-64 support the governor’s plan to create a health insurance exchange. Nearly 2 in 3 respondents indicated that it should be a top or high [...]
Filed under: ACA, Affordable, Comprehensive Coverage, Federal health reform, Insurance Exchange, Insurance reform, New York State Budget, New York State Politics, Uninsured | Tagged: ACA, insurance, Insurance Exchange, small business | Comments Off
A few weeks ago I noted that the healthcare stories that make it into the media are always in favor of health reform. But, it turns out I was wrong! Perhaps someone at the conservative think-tank Heritage Foundation read my post, because they have now recently come out with their own series of anti-”Obamacare” consumer [...]
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