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NY Health Exchange Legislation Waits

Charlie Vella June 20, 2011 0

ALBANY, NY (WAMC) - Some of the seven states that received $241 million dollarsworth of federal "Early Innovators" grants have yet to move forward on key aspects of implementing their health insurance exchanges and

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Health insurance exchange bill introduced in Senate (updated)

Charlie Vella June 20, 2011 0

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

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Senate issues health-exchange bill, Business Council approves

Charlie Vella June 20, 2011 0

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,

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Critics of N.Y. property tax cap fight to stop deal

Charlie Vella June 20, 2011 0

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,

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Battle of the health plans

Charlie Vella June 20, 2011 0

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

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Battle of the health plans

Charlie Vella June 8, 2011 0

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

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Addabbo: No Better Time to Reform Albany than Now

Charlie Vella May 26, 2011 0

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

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Push for early action on insurance exchange

Bjarni Thoroddsson May 16, 2011 0

Legislative Gazette Albany Supporters of the federal Affordable Care Act want the Legislature to act now to ensure New Yorkers in need have access to health care coverage. Health Care for All New York, an advocacy group

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Tax cap: Sound bite or sound policy?

Bjarni Thoroddsson May 16, 2011 0

Legislative Gazette Albany Gov. Andrew Cuomo campaigned heavily on property tax relief, made a tax cap the subject of his first program bill and is now touring the state drumming up public support for the cap

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Cap on property taxes hot issue at Capitol

Bjarni Thoroddsson May 10, 2011 0

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

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