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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 April 15, 2015 by Amanda
On April 14, the Senate passed H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), a bi‐partisan legislative package originating in the House of Representatives that reauthorizes funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for two years, through 2017. HCFANY and other prominent health care advocates supported a four-year extension. Check out our response in […]
Posted March 26, 2015 by Amanda
HCFANY urged the Legislature and the Governor to continue to build a strong health insurance system and to take steps to expand the affordability of health coverage in the final 2015‐16 budget agreement. See our full press release in response to the Senate and House one-house bills here.
Posted February 2, 2015 by Amanda
Health Care For All New York (HCFANY) issued testimony on February 2 to the Legislature’s fiscal committees saying that the Executive Budget puts New York on track to continue reducing the number of uninsured. At the same time, HCFANY proposed changes to more fully meet the needs of consumers to understand and resolve problems with their […]
Posted December 12, 2014 by Amanda
On December 11, 2014, New York State’s Department of Financial Services sent guidance to all commercial insurers in the state barring denials of medically necessary treatment for gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria is a condition when a person’s identity at birth is different than who they know themselves to be on the inside. Download HCFANY’s press release in support of the […]