Posted February, 28 2012 by arianne
Yesterday, the NYS Senate released a letter written by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R) responding to Senate Minority Leader John Sampson’s (D) request that the Senate bring health insurance exchange legislation on to the floor. Last year, New York’s exchange bill passed in the House, but never came to a vote in the Senate. At the time, Skelos had said […]
Posted February, 27 2012 by arianne
You may remember some talk about “essential health benefits” (EHBs) under the ACA back in October when the Institute of Medecine released its recommendationsto the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). At that point, it was still unclear what HHS was going to come back with. Well, in December HHS released a bulletin outlining what it […]
Posted February, 23 2012 by arianne
Made you blush? Good. That’s the idea behind the Young Invincibles‘ attention-getting “Friends with Benefits” headline, which marked the release of a new toolkit designed to help young adults get informed about health insurance coverage and benefits. The new toolkit is available at www.gettingcovered.org and allows folks to download a series of one-pagers on different topics that […]
Posted February, 22 2012 by arianne
Earlier this month, we covered a new report on hospital financial assistance released by the Community Service Society. This report has been making waves since its release, so anyone who is interested in learning more on the topic now has a few more options to do so. Elisabeth Benjamin, one of the report’s authors, recently appeared on Democracy Now! with […]