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Health Exchange will make insurance more accessible
Queens Courier 4/19/12 Billy Rennison http://queenscourier.com/2012/health-exchange-will-make-insurance-more-accessible/ The governor issued an executive order recently establishing a statewide health insurance exchange after the state legislature failed to pass the bill last year. Governor Andrew Cuomo established
Read More »The Daily Q: What are New York’s biggest tax loopholes?
New York World 4/17/12 Alice Brennan http://www.thenewyorkworld.com/2012/04/17/the-daily-q-what-are-new-yorks-biggest-tax-loopholes/ Today is everyone’s favorite day of the year, right? Tax deadline day. But according to advocacy groups in New York some corporations won’t be filing as much
Read More »Cuomo issues health exchange executive order
Times Union’s Capitol Confidential 4/12/12 Casey Seiler http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/125064/cuomo-issues-health-exchange-executive-order/ As promised just before the budget closed two weeks ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has issued an executive order creating a state health exchange. The order removes
Read More »Cuomo creates health exchange by executive order
In an expected move, Gov. Andrew Cuomo used an executive order Thursday afternoon to create the state's first ever health exchange. The new system is mandated federally by the Affordable Care Act.
Read More »How will reform help citizens of New York?
Times Union Op-Ed 3/30/12 Bob Cohen, Policy Director, Citizen Action of New York http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/How-will-reform-help-citizens-of-New-York-3448850.php There’s something missing in the recent national and state discussions over the federal Affordable Care Act and its constitutionality —
Read More »Citizen Action Rally For Education
New York State's next fiscal year budget is set to restore about 800 million dollars of education spending
Read More »N.Y. budget won’t fund fracking health study
Ithaca Journal 3/26/12 Jon Campbell http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20120326/NEWS01/203260355/N-Y-budget-won-t-fund-fracking-health-study?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CLocal%20News A pair of measures championed by environmental and conservation groups will be left out of a final state budget agreement, lawmakers said Monday. Funding for a health-specific study
Read More »Affordable Care Act Anniversary
Citizen Action organized a birthday party Wednesday to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Affordable Care Act
Read More »NYFF’s ‘Counter-Budget’: close corporate tax loopholes
In the wake of last week’s Big Ugly, New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness released a “Counter-Budget” that focuses on funding for higher education and health care, paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.
Read More »Republicans want further study on a health exchange; Special interest groups say GOP senators are stalling
Inaction over the establishment of the Health Insurance Exchange has incited a unified push from many advocacy groups, urging the Senate to stop delaying the bill and bring it to the floor
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