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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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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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As if it wasn’t already completely obvious that New Yorkers need help when it comes to getting quality, affordable health insurance, we now have even more evidence to support this fact. The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) put out a new report today that shows that since the recession began, the number of New Yorkers without health [...]
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Families USA (FUSA) has just come out with a series of reports to answer that age old question that has been on everyone’s mind since the words “Affordable Care Act” were first uttered: How much money is this actually going to save me? According to FUSA, the average New Yorker will be better off by about $1,160 by the [...]
Filed under: ACA, Affordable, Federal health reform, Insurance reform, Premiums, Uninsured | Tagged: ACA, Federal health reform, Implementation, insurance, Insurance Exchange | Comments Off
Alright kids, it’s that time of the year again! The weather is getting colder and state politics are heating up – all clear indications that HCFANY’s annual statewide meeting is just around the bend. So, get out your datebooks or your newfangled iCalendars or whatnot and pencil in the following info: HCFANY Annual Meeting December [...]
Filed under: ACA | Tagged: HCFANY annual meetiing, Immigrants, Implementation, insurance, Insurance Exchange, Medicaid, Occupy Wall Street, prior approval, small business, women's health | Comments Off
Earlier this week, our friends at the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative and Progress Now Colorado launched a new campaign and website called “Thanks Obamacare” which aims to both take back the moniker and to educate the public about all of the good things that Obamacare is doing. On the website you can find the top [...]
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Sometimes things that seem scary at first can turn out to be really helpful, right? Take insurance exchanges, for example. The final recommendations of the Program Streamlining and State/Local Responsibilities Work Group of the State’s Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) are now out and up on the web. As you may or may not know, this group was charged [...]
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U.S. PIRG, the federation of state Public Interest Research Groups, has released a new report that looks at the existing insurance exchanges that have been set up in other states and rates them based on how accountable they will be to the public, how much they can do to lower costs and improve quality, how [...]
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The good folks at Crain’s Health Pulse picked up on an interesting story this morning. As you all know, New York hasn’t passed its Exchange bill yet because the State Senate chose not to vote on it during the last session and has not yet felt the need to revisit it. Well, turns out that Rhode Island had [...]
Filed under: Federal health reform, ACA, New York State Politics, Governor Cuomo | Tagged: ACA, Implementation, Insurance Exchange | Comments Off
You asked for it!
What better way to work off that candy coma then with a bit of good, old-fashioned reading? And lucky for you, we just happen to have a whole stack of available reading materials posted here just for you! See, while most folks were out there dressing up as vixens or Voltrons or whatnot, HCFANY was burning [...]
Filed under: ACA, Comprehensive Coverage, Employer Sponsored Health Insurance, Federal health reform, Insurance reform, Medicaid, Premiums, Small Business | Tagged: ACA, comments, Federal health reform, Implementation, Insurance Exchange, Medicaid, proposed regs, small business | Comments Off