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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 »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 »Push for early action on insurance exchange
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
Read More »Advocates warn NY lagging behind in transition to health care reform
News Channel 13 - WNYT Albany Advocates representing dozens of health care activist organizations complain New York is the only state with a Democratic governor that has done nothing to prepare for Health Care exchanges. "So far
Read More »Advocates say NY needs health-exchange legislation ASAP
Politics on the Hudson Albany Ethics reform, a property-tax cap and gay marriage are getting a lot of attention in Albany, but dozens of consumer-rights and health-care groups are asking lawmakers to focus on legislation that
Read More »Insurance Dept. plans health insurance public hearing
Rochester Business Journal Rochester The state Department of Insurance plans to hold a health insurance exchange public hearing in Rochester May 19. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires states to set up markets where individuals
Read More »City’s hospitals are sickening: study
New York Post New York City Patients in the metropolitan area are likelier to contract an illness in their local hospitals than are those in 36 other major urban areas, according to a disturbing survey. The New
Read More »Malpractice Cap Emerges as Key Issue in Budget Debate
Gotham Gazette New York City Ten years ago Jeremiah Taylor walked into a New York City hospital thinking he was going to undergo routine surgery on his lower back. Things did not go as planned. Hospital staff
Read More »Advocates celebrate health care reform anniversary
YNN Buffalo Dr. Myron Glick of Jericho Road Family Practice knows, first hand, the effect health care reform has on his patients. "It's a good first step, but if our goal is to get everyone excellent,
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