View the latest informational materials from Health Care For All New York.
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 November 23, 2014 by Amanda
This Q&A document, designed for advocates, provides responses to some of the persistent myths about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), with important facts about how the ACA is working for New Yorkers.
Posted September 21, 2014 by Amanda
HCFANY commends the development of regulations that provide strong consumer protections relating to internal claims, appeals, and external review processes under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). However, we also recommend ways in which the rules could be made clearer or stronger in the following areas: adverse benefit determination, notice and information issues, […]
Posted September 4, 2014 by Amanda
Superintendent Lawsky announces 2015 health insurance rates for New York and DFS reduced insurers’ overall proposed rates increases by more than half. Read our response in our press release, below.
Posted August 7, 2014 by Amanda
Read HCFANY’s letter to Benjamin Lawsky, Superintendent of Financial Services and Charles Lovejoy of the New York State Insurance Department’s Health Bureau on the proposed premium rate changes to Oscar’s insurance products on the New York State Marketplace.