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 submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services about New York’s benchmark plan for use in the individual and small group insurance markets in 2017 and beyond.
From 9/25/15: Join Health Care for All New York (HCFANY) for a webinar to learn more about the Essential Plan. The Essential Plan is a new health insurance product that will be offered for the first time in New York during the 2015 – 2016 Open Enrollment period. Consumers who earn more than the Medicaid […]
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the uninsured rate in New York has fallen to 8.7%. HCFANY’s press release, praising the success of NYSOH and the ACA, is here.
The verdict is in: the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a major step for New Yorkers! More than two million New Yorkers have obtained coverage through NY State of Health (NYSOH), the health insurance marketplace created under the ACA, in its first two years. And even those of us who had coverage before the ACA […]