Posted March, 19 2012 by arianne
This week marks the second anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care reform, and the gifts just keep on giving! Seniors have a lot to celebrate: Â 59% of New Yorkers with Medicare Part B received preventive services without co-payments or deductibles by August 2011. (3 million New Yorkers are eligible […]
Posted March, 16 2012 by arianne
As you all know, our State Senate is failing big time at responding to New York’s need for a health insurance Exchange. Up until now, they’ve been the only ones flip-flopping on this issue. Governor Cuomo, on the other hand, has been a champion from the get go on the push to get a health insurance […]
Posted March, 15 2012 by arianne
They say you should love thy neighbor but that you shouldn’t covet thy neighbor’s wife – but what about coveting thy neighbor’s State Senate? New Jersey’s legislature was set to vote today on a bill authorizing a health insurance exchange for that state (New Jersey Health Benefit Exchange Act (S-1319/A-2171)). And, from what this blogger hears, the bill is actually pretty […]
Posted March, 12 2012 by arianne
In a continuation of the Senate’s new tone-deaf campaign to ignore the health insurance needs New York’s small businesses and families, Senate Insurance Chair Seward, dropped a bill today that calls for a study of the studies about whether New York ought to set up a Health Insurance Exchange. Senator Seward apparently lost the memorandum […]