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Small businesses come out on top

Posted March, 21 2011 by arianne

Today marks the first day of the week-long celebration taking place around the nation to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  To help get things rolling, HCFANY will be spotlighting a different aspect of the ACA each day this week, and how it is helping New Yorkers.  Today’s topic, if you didn’t guess it […]

And the budget beat goes on…

Posted March, 16 2011 by arianne

Yes, today is conference committee day up at the Capitol.  The Senate and Assembly both passed their one-house resolutions yesterday, which included several cuts to the proposed Medicaid redesign package.  The budget is still scheduled to pass on April 1st and Governor Cuomo has said that if does not go according to schedule then he will resort […]

Let's talk money, shall we?

Posted March, 10 2011 by arianne

With the Governor’s addition of his 30-day amendements to the proposed Executive Budget last week, the Medicaid Redesign Team’s recommendations have now been converted into actual legislative proposals.  These proposals contain $2.3 billion in cuts to the State’s share of Medicaid spending.  This will translate into sweeping changes  to New York’s Medicaid program – a program that serves as […]

Health care and…me?

Posted March, 7 2011 by arianne

Think anybody out there is still confused about health reform? You betcha! Even hardcore HCFANYers often find themselves scratching their heads over different bits of the new law.  To help out, a group of advocates called the Health Care and You Coalition put together a new consumer-oriented website to provide the public with easy-to-understand information about the […]