Join HCFANY for our upcoming annual winter meeting this Thursday, January 11 from 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany, 405 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12206. Please register here. Highlights will include: Keynote address by Ron Deutsch, Executive Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute on tax reform and its implications for […]
If you haven’t enrolled in health insurance for 2018 yet, there is still time. Open enrollment in New York continues on the New York State of Health Marketplace through Wednesday, January 31, 2018. Sign up by January 15 for coverage that begins February 1. Sign up by January 31 for coverage that begins March 1. […]
Guest post by Claudia Calhoon, MPH, Director of Health Policy at the New York Immigration Coalition. On Wednesday, December 13, the Assembly Committee on Health, the Assembly Puerto Rican/Hispanic Taskforce, and the Assembly Taskforce on New Americans convened a public hearing on Immigrant access to healthcare. Coverage 4 All, a campaign of Health Care For […]
Follow up to “We expect our children to complete their homework on time. Shouldn’t we expect the same from Congress?” posted on November 8, 2017. Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), known as Child Health Plus in New York, expired 75 days ago on September 30. Together, Child Health Plus and Medicaid cover […]