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Commonwealth Fund Report: Soaring Health Insurance Premiums Endanger Employees and Businesses Alike

Posted August, 25 2009 by arianne

A report released last week by the Commonwealth Fund, Paying the Price: How Health insurance Premiums are Eating Up Middle-Class Incomes, found that between 1999 and 2008, employer sponsored health insurance (ESI) premiums rose by 119%, while median American family income rose by only 29%. In New York, employer-sponsored Insurance (ESI) premiums for a family rose […]

Don't Miss This! Q&A with Congressman Rangel: Wednesday 8/26

Posted August, 24 2009 by arianne

Health care reform has become a burning issue. Stakes for each community, business and special interest groups are high and political divide seems to be across party lines. Congressman Charles Rangel is a leader in the national health care reform conversation–come here him speak on the issues to ethnic and community press! WHEN: Wednesday, August […]

Albany Announcements: New Superintendent of Insurance, Deputy Health Secretary & A Spending Cap

Posted August, 14 2009 by arianne

Welcome! Today, Governor Paterson announced the appointment of James J. Wrynn as the new State Superintendent of Insurance and Wendy Saunders as the new Deputy Secretary for Health, Medicaid and Oversight.  HCFANY welcomes them and looks forward to working together. A Spending Cap Yestersay, Governor Paterson announced that he plans to ask the Legislature to impose a […]