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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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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NYS budget to be released today

Posted on January 17, 2012 by hcfany

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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Where we at?

Posted on January 4, 2012 by hcfany

Holy cow – can you believe it’s already 2012? It sounds so…futuristic.  And, being that the future is now, we are at that all-important day in January when our Governor will give his annual State of the State speech. What will be on his agenda for this year? Well, we can guess a few things [...]

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Staying healthy is worth a lot, at any age

Posted on December 16, 2011 by hcfany

It seems like for a while there all the talk was about the so-called “young invincibles” – a free-wheeling breed of thrill-seeking young adults who have no desire for comprehensive health insurance, but rather prefer more risky alternatives such as health savings accounts or a pack of Hello Kitty band-aids and some strong whiskey.   And yes, young adults below the age [...]

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Hanging out with the cool kids

Posted on December 13, 2011 by hcfany

Want to know what’s happening with health reform? Like, where states are with exchange legislation, or what sort of oppositional activity is going on? Well, just ask the Kidswell Campaign!  They have just blown this blogger’s mind with a set of state snapshots they put together highlighting these questions and others. They’ve also got a [...]

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Three women, one story.

Posted on December 9, 2011 by hcfany

This week, three different women’s stories have been making the rounds throughout HCFANY’s social media networks, so I thought I’d share them with the blogger world as well. The first story comes from Baltimore, where a bride named Meredith Gould decided to put the money her wedding guests are willing gift her to good use by putting health insurance [...]

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Checking in on an evolving landscape

Posted on December 2, 2011 by hcfany

Our health care system is undergoing many changes both under the direction of the health reform law and also independently of it. Yes, the ins and outs of health insurance are changing, but so are we the people.   PriceWaterhouseCooper’s (PWC) Health Research Institute recently commissioned a national poll of 1,000 adults across the nation on a variety of different healthcare topics and [...]

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