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Holiday greetings, from HCFANY

Posted December, 23 2010 by arianne

What a great year for health reform!    In the spirit of the holiday season, Health Care For All New York would like to take a moment to celebrate our dedicated friends, families, and colleagues who helped make 2010 the year of health reform. With the passage of the federal health reform law, newly implemented programs like the […]

Cuomo names new health commissioner

Posted December, 20 2010 by arianne

Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo has named Dr. Nirav R. Shah as the new Commissioner of Health for New York .  This will place him as the head of the State Department of Health – an agency with an annual budget of over $50 billion. Shah is a Buffalo native who currently works as an internist at Bellevue Hospital […]

Why all the fuss?

Posted December, 15 2010 by arianne

Though many of us have been involved in this health care battle for quite some time, its easy to forget that there are still many folks out there who still don’t really understand the issues at heart or what all the fuss is about.   In talking to people who don’t happen to live and breathe health reform like […]

2 out of 3 judges find health reform law constitutional

Posted December, 14 2010 by arianne

After failing to stop the health reform bill from passing in the first place, some opponents have taken to challenging the constitutionality of the law in court.  Yesterday’s ruling in Virginia (by a judge who is said to have a long history of Republican politics)  found the requirement to purchase insurance to be beyond the reach of […]