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Major Health Care Victory: Governor Creates Health Exchange!
Health care consumers in New York won a major victory on April 12th when Governor Cuomo issued an Executive Order to create a health insurance exchange – a health care marketplace -- in the
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The Affordable Care Act: The Gift that Keeps on Giving to New Yorkers
Polling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) shows what first seems like a weird contradiction. The latest Kaiser polling shows that Americans are split down the middle when you ask them whether they support
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Statement by Karen Scharff, In Response to Announced Tax Deal
Citizen Action of New York Responds to Tax Plan In response to the economic plan announced today, Karen Scharff, Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York said: After several years of devastating budget cuts to
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Health Plans to Refund $114.5 Million in Overcharges
On Wednesday, Governor Cuomo announced that he was ordering 11 health insurance companies to refund $114.5 million to policy holders who were overcharged for their health insurance premiums in
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United Healthcare Opens its Books; Consumers Win
In another victory for the right of health care consumers to challenge sky-high health insurance rates, UnitedHealthcare, the largest New York health insurer, has agreed to make available to the public the entire rate
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Health Insurance Consumers Are Not Children, State Insurance Regulator Rules
A post by Policy Director Bob Cohen
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Legislative and Communications Internship Opportunity
We're looking for an intern! Are you qualified to join our team and help bring social justice to New York
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Rally to End Corporate Greed at Verizon
Over the last four years, Verizon has reported $19.5 billion in profits and paid out $258 million to its top five executives. Now, they’re trying to short-change their employees. With contracts scheduled to expire
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Caravan to Restore the American Promise: A Recap (with media)
The Statewide Caravan to Restore the American Promise was a massive effort by Citizen Action of New York and our many coalition partners and supporters to draw attention to the fact that right now,
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Affordable health care next on Cuomo agenda
An Op-Ed previously published on timesunion.com, written by Richard Kirsch New York's long history of bipartisan leadership on health care got swept under the rug at the end of the legislative session when Senate Republicans
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