In 2022, the FY 2023 budget deal resulted in a promise made by Governor Hochul’s Administration to seek federal funding through a 1332 Waiver to expand our Essential Plan program to all New York State residents, including immigrants who are undocumented. In a turnaround, the State’s final FY 2024 proposed budget excludes immigrants from the […]
This testimony was submitted on February 25, 2021. Download a pdf below. Health Care for All New York (HCFANY) would like to thank the chairs and members of the Assembly Ways and Means and the Senate Finance Committees for providing the public an opportunity to provide our comments on the state budget. HCFANY is […]
Coverage Half of New Yorkers say that they cannot afford medical care even with insurance and another 5 percent of New Yorkers, 1 million people, have no coverage at all. New York should enact the New York Health Act (S3577a/A5248a) to cover everyone. RIGHT NOW: Pass S2549/A1585 to ensure that immigrants affected by COVID-19 have […]
HCFANY wrote to Victoria Wachino, Director for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) urging CMS to approve federal matching funding for the New York State Clinic Uncompensated Care Pool (UCP). You can read our letter below.
HCFANY supports S.6667/A.9311, which would create a health insurance guaranty fund, provided the bill’s funding mechanism is modified. Read HCFANY’s Memorandum of Support with Modification for more information: HCFANY Memo of Support S.6667A.9311
HCFANY’s 2016 Budget Agenda seeks to: expand access to affordable, quality coverage to the remaining uninsured; ensure consumers have help to use and keep their coverage; create a health guaranty fund; and maintain important consumer protections for Medicaid beneficiaries. You can read more about these issues in our Policy Brief: HCFANY 2016 Budget Agenda Policy […]