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Posted May 25, 2023 by Amanda Dunker
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 […]
Posted March 24, 2021 by Amanda Dunker
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 […]
Posted January 27, 2021 by Amanda Dunker
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 […]
Posted May 7, 2010 by Amanda
The new health law does several things to both reduce the number of people without insurance and bring down the cost of health insurance across the board. Specifically, it will: Require everyone to have insurance by 2014. Create health insurance Exchanges for individuals and small businesses. Exchanges will help businesses and families compare dis-counted insurance […]
Posted December 7, 2009 by Amanda
This brief represents a summarized version of HCFANY’s analysis of both the House and Senate health reform bills.
Posted July 16, 2009 by arianne
There are nearly 600,000 uninsured immigrant adults who live, work, and raise families in New York, but are not yet regularized. The rate of uninsurance among New York’s immigrant families is roughly three times higher than that of those who are native-born. Federal health reform may not address this issue. Yet without immigrant inclusion at […]
Posted June 7, 2009 by Amanda
Health insurance has grown increasingly expensive. In New York, insurance premiums have risen by 81% between 2000 and 2007, compared to only an 11% increase in worker earnings. What would affordable health insurance look like to New York’s working families–and how would it factor into a health reform movement?