by Bob Cohen | Jun 29, 2012 | Health Care
On June 28th, the last day of its term, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Congress had the power to establish a requirement that most people buy insurance by 2014. Our focus at Citizen Action hasn’t been about the “individual...
by Bob Cohen | Apr 17, 2012 | Health Care, Uncategorized
Health care consumers in New York won a major victory on April 12th when Governor Cuomo issued an Executive Order to create a health insurance exchange – a health care marketplace — in the state. Once an exchange is created in January of 2014, the state projects...
by Bob Cohen | Jan 5, 2012 | Health Care
Polling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) shows what first seems like a weird contradiction. The latest Kaiser polling shows that Americans are split down the middle when you ask them whether they support the law itself. Yet, large majorities support most of the...
by Bob Cohen | Oct 17, 2011 | Health Care
Say what? The multi-year fight by New York health insurance consumers to stop oversight of their sky-high rates took an almost amusing turn in early October when an Albany insurance industry lobbyist argued that documents that health insurers use to determine how...
by Bob Cohen | Jun 20, 2011 | Health Care
As this entry is being written – on June 20th, the last day of the scheduled New York legislative session — advocates for health care reform are converging on the State Capitol in Albany to make a last push for the Legislature to create a pro-consumer health...
