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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
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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
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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 »Affordable Care Act Anniversary
Citizen Action organized a birthday party Wednesday to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the Affordable Care Act
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
Read More »Talks may resolve New York budget issues
There was no resolution on creating a health-insurance exchange, as required under the federal Affordable Care Act. Members of the Health Care for All New York coalition said Senate Republicans are “punting” on the
Read More »Health-care advocates say Senate GOP is “punting” on setting up health-insurance exchange
Members of the Health Care for All New York coalition continue to criticize members of the Senate Republican majority today, saying the lawmakers are “punting” on setting up a health-insurance exchange in New York.
Read More »‘Trade secret’ concerns
In the first weeks of the newly restructured Department of Financial Services, Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky has made it extremely clear that when the concerns of corporate health plans to keep their secrets in order
Read More »Prescriptions cost too much? Got health insurance problems? Community health advocates working to help Central New Yorkers
Donna and Frank Baniewicz’s prescription drug costs were getting out of hand. The Liverpool couple, both diabetics, take more than a dozen prescriptions. The co-pay on just one of those prescriptions, a cholesterol-lowering drug, recently
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