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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,
Read More »Hospital Financial Assistance Programs: Are New York Hospitals Complying with New Requirements?
2008 – March Hospital Financial Assistance Programs: Are New York Hospitals Complying with New Requirements? (click to download PDF) In April of 2006, New York State enacted a groundbreaking law providing protections for uninsured
Read More »The Public Cost of Privatized Medicare: How Medicare Advantage is hurting Medicare beneficiaries and other New York taxpayers
2007 – July The Public Cost of Privatized Medicare: How Medicare Advantage is hurting Medicare beneficiaries and other New York taxpayers (click to download PDF) The privatization of Medicare is costing U.S. taxpayers billions.
Read More »The Excess Cost of the Bush Prescription Drug Plan in New York
2006 – April 06 The Excess Cost of the Bush Prescription Drug Plan in New York (click to download PDF). In passing the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act (MMA), the Republican controlled Congress passed a
Read More »The Great Hospital Heist: How New York Hospitals Charge the Most to Those Least Able to Pay
2006 – March The Great Hospital Heist: How New York Hospitals Charge the Most to Those Least Able to Pay (click to download PDF) This report draws on data from the New York State
Read More »Paying More for Less
2003 – October 09 Paying More for Less (click to download PDF). The primary impetus of the Medicare reform proposals passed by each house of Congress in July, S1 and HR1, is to lower
Read More »The Consumers’ Guide to New York’s Managed Care Bill of Rights
2001 – September The Consumers’ Guide to New York’s Managed Care Bill of Rights (click to download PDF) This guide explains how to use the rights and protections that New York State grants health
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