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 Communications Team | Dec 6, 2011 | Education, Health Care, Press Releases
Citizen Action of New York Responds to Tax Plan In response to the economic plan announced today, Karen Scharff, Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York said: After several years of devastating budget cuts to schools, services, and our safety net, Governor...
by Communications Team | Nov 11, 2011 | Health Care
On Wednesday, Governor Cuomo announced that he was ordering 11 health insurance companies to refund $114.5 million to policy holders who were overcharged for their health insurance premiums in 2010. State regulations require that insurers spend at least 82 cents of...
by Communications Team | Oct 26, 2011 | Health Care, Uncategorized
In another victory for the right of health care consumers to challenge sky-high health insurance rates, UnitedHealthcare, the largest New York health insurer, has agreed to make available to the public the entire rate filing that it provides to the state Department of...
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 Communications Team | Aug 8, 2011 | Education, Fair Elections, Health Care
Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots membership organization taking on big issues that are at the center of transforming American society. We look for opportunities to accomplish big changes – not small, incremental reforms. We work to elect progressive...
by Communications Team | Jul 28, 2011 | Health Care
Over the last four years, Verizon has reported $19.5 billion in profits and paid out $258 million to its top five executives. Now, they’re trying to short-change their employees. With contracts scheduled to expire on August 6th, Verizon has produced its most...
by Communications Team | Jul 25, 2011 | Capital District, Health Care, Hudson Valley, New York City, Rochester, Southern Tier, Western New York
The Statewide Caravan to Restore the American Promise was a massive effort by Citizen Action of New York and our many coalition partners and supporters to draw attention to the fact that right now, politicians are working to strip away our social safety net in order...
