Reports
National Minimum Medical Loss Ratio Would Save Tens of Billions of Dollars For Businesses, Individuals
2009 – December 16
National Minimum Medical Loss Ratio Would Save Tens of Billions of Dollars For Businesses, Individuals (click to download PDF)
A report released by Health Care for American Now and Citizen Action’s Binghamton chapter finds that setting a national minimum amount for health insurers to spend on health care as opposed to items like [...]
United Healthcare: New York Customers Lose While the Company Fights Reform
2009 – September 22
United Healthcare: New York Customers Lose While the Company Fights Reform (click to download PDF)
United Healthcare is a New York subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (UHG), based in Minnesota. UHG is the second largest health insurance company in the nation, with 2008 revenues of $75.4 billion (25th on the Fortune 500 list), and [...]
GHI/HIP and the Need for Federal Health Care Reform
2009 – September 22
GHI/HIP and the Need for Federal Health Care Reform (click to download PDF)
Group Health, Inc. (GHI) and HIP Health Plan of New York (HIP) are two long-time non-profit health insurers that affiliated in 2006. (In this report, the combined company is referred to as “GHI/HIP”). GHI/HIP is the largest health insurer based [...]
Three Proposals to Pay for Health Care Reform without Hurting Struggling Families in New York (Upstate Version)
2009 – July 28
Three Proposals to Pay for Health Care Reform without Hurting Struggling Families in New York (click to download PDF).
Health care reform can save us all money in the long-run by bringing all Americans into the health insurance system and rooting out the inefficiencies that drive up costs. But to make that happen, [...]
Three Proposals to Pay for Health Care Reform without Hurting Struggling Families in New York
2009 – July 28
Three Proposals to Pay for Health Care Reform without Hurting Struggling Families in New York (click to download PDF).
Health care reform can save us all money in the long-run by bringing all Americans into the health insurance system and rooting out the inefficiencies that drive up costs. But to make that happen, [...]
Health Insurance Coverage in New York Keeps Shrinking as Premiums, Family Costs Continue Climbing
2009 – July 28
Health Insurance Coverage in New York Keeps Shrinking as Premiums, Family Costs Continue Climbing (click to download PDF)
Medical care has become too expensive in New York, leaving 2.6 million state residents uninsured and exposed to the catastrophic costs of accidents and illnesses. The economic downturn that began 19 months ago has vaporized [...]
Unequal Lives: Health Care Discrimination Harms Communities of Color in New York
2009 – July 15
Unequal Lives: Health Care Discrimination Harms Communities of Color in New York (click to download PDF)
Rapidly escalating medical costs and insurance premiums, rising numbers of people without coverage, and rip-offs by monopolistic private insurers have dominated the New York political dialogue surrounding President Barack Obama’s plans for comprehensive health reform. On Capitol [...]
New Yorkers Pay When Big Money Plays: The Case for Public Financing of Elections
2009 – May 26
New Yorkers Pay When Big Money Plays: The Case for Public Financing of Elections (click to download PDF)
This report adds to the mounting evidence that the influence of campaign contributions by big corporate money triumphs over the merits again and again in the halls of the State Legislature. As we have pointed [...]
Race Matters: Impact of the 2009-10 Executive Budget Proposal
2009 – March 03
Race Matters: Impact of the 2009-10 Executive Budget Proposal (click to download PDF)
The New York State Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-10 budget that will be enacted this spring will have a major impact on the future of our state’s economy, our communities, our schools, our health and our social safety net. The final [...]
The High Cost of “Pay-to-Play”: Health Insurance Contributions Drive Up Insurance Rates
2008 – September
The High Cost of “Pay-to-Play”: Health Insurance Contributions Drive Up Insurance Rates (click to download PDF)
Ever since the release of a 2004 report by the respected Brennan Center for Justice, it has become an accepted truism that New York has the “most dysfunctional” state legislature in the nation. We believe the Legislature’s response [...]
