Posted September, 10 2008 by arianne
A report released today by Citizen Action–a HCFANY member organization–finds that New York State Senate Republicans are major recipients of health insurance company campaign contributions. The report notes that regulation of the State's health insurance rates are blocked regularly in the Republican- controlled State Senate and urges state leaders to adopt public financing of elections […]
Posted September, 8 2008 by arianne
For two contrasting points of view, see the New York Times editorial, on August 30, 2008, The Massachusetts Way, and a September 7, 2008, Letter to the Editorial Board by HCFANY Policy Committee member, Len Rodberg, Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College, CUNY and research director of the New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National […]
Posted September, 4 2008 by arianne
Lois Uttley, Director of The Mergerwatch Project–and HCFANY member–wrote a fascinating article about women and health reform that highlight these grim facts: – Women are losing job-based insurance at a rapid clip: the numbers of uninsured women rose from 18 million in 1999 to more that 21 million in 2008. – The number of women using government-sponsored health […]
Posted August, 27 2008 by arianne
A report published in a web-exclusive article in Health Affairs this week by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that people who are uninsured for a full year receive less than half as much care as those that have insurance, yet pay more for that little they do receive. In 2008, the uninsured will spend a total […]