2026 HCFANY’s Comments on Rate Review
Posted June 25, 2025 by Will Pan
View the latest informational materials from Health Care For All New York.
Posted June 25, 2025 by Will Pan
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 February 16, 2010 by arianne
Regarding rate Approvals for Individual and Small Group Health Insurance Policies 2010-2011 New York State Executive Budget Health and Mental Hygiene, Article VII Bill (Part D, Sections 1-4)
Posted January 7, 2010 by Amanda
HCFANY supports A.9036/S.6030, the young adult bill, which seeks to provide a COBRA-like insurance option to young adults in New York. Young adults between the ages of 19 and 29 are twice as likely to be uninsured as other adults. Around 808,000 young adults are uninsured in New York, making up nearly one-third (31%) of […]
Posted December 7, 2009 by Amanda
In October 2007, the UnitedHealth Group issued a proposal to reform New York’s direct-pay and small-group markets. The direct-pay market is individual insurance coverage. The goal of the UnitedHealth proposal is to address the “death spiral” (see box below) or decline in enrollment. UnitedHealth attributes this decline to a lack of product flexibility, inadequate stop-loss pool […]
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.