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Health insurance exchange bill introduced in Senate (updated)
Creation of a state health insurance exchange — a marketplace where consumers and small businesses can shop for policies — inched forward with last Thursday's introduction of a bill in the Senate aimed at
Read More »Senate issues health-exchange bill, Business Council approves
Senate Health Committee Chairman Kemp Hannon, R-Nassau County, and Senate Insurance Committee Chairman James Seward, R-Milford, Otsego County, announced this morning that they have introduced legislation that would set up New York’s health-insurance exchange,
Read More »Critics of N.Y. property tax cap fight to stop deal
ALBANY — Despite a tentative agreement on a property-tax cap, education and civic groups continued to rail against it Tuesday, contending it would exacerbate school funding inequities. And Senate Republicans, who are in the majority,
Read More »Battle of the health plans
ALBANY -- Two proposals for a health insurance exchange are being floated around the state Capitol -- one that gives an exchange wide powers, and the other placing strong limits on its role. Insurance exchanges
Read More »Battle of the health plans
ALBANY -- Two proposals for a health insurance exchange are being floated around the state Capitol -- one that gives an exchange wide powers, and the other placing strong limits on its role. Insurance exchanges
Read More »Addabbo: No Better Time to Reform Albany than Now
State Senator Joseph Addabbo Jr. (D–Howard Beach) reports that he and six other Democrats, “answering the public outcry for immediate action on ethics reform and addressing a top priority of Governor Cuomo’s agenda, “held
Read More »Cap on property taxes hot issue at Capitol
News Channel 13 - WNYT Albany A proposed cap on property taxes was a hot topic at the Capitol Tuesday. Groups on both sides of the issue held rallies, which took place in the well of the
Read More »Groups to rally Saturday against Ball
Politics on the Hudson Peekskill A host of groups pushing for independent redistricting has Sen. Greg Ball, R-Carmel, Putnam County, in its sights. Led by former lieutenant governor candidate Bill Samuels’ reform-minded New Roosevelt Initiative, the rally
Read More »Legislature OKs budget as protesters make final drive against cuts
Times Union Albany With protesters angry about budget cuts rallying inside the Capitol, state lawmakers completed work on a $132.5 billion state budget early Thursday morning. The Senate passed the budget at about midnight and the Assembly
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