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Advisory: Health Advocates Call On Leaders to Pass Health Exchange Law

Jun 28, 2011 |

Albany, NY – On Wednesday, members of the Health Care for All New York coalition and other health groups will release an open letter to Governor Cuomo, Senator Skelos and Speaker Silver urging them to quickly enact legislation establishing New York’s Health Insurance Exchange, as required under the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) passed in March of 2010.

Citizen Action Applauds Schneiderman/DiNapoli Plan to Fight Corruption

Jun 28, 2011 |

“If you’re tired of all the rain in Albany, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s new task force on public integrity is sure to shine a little sunlight on your day. As clouds loom over an end of session ethics deal, the Attorney General and Comptroller are using existing law to fight corruption and misuse of tax-payer money in a new, creative way.

Advisory: Melissa Harris-Perry to Keynote at Major Statewide Progressive Conference in Albany

Jun 28, 2011 |

Citizen Action of New York, a statewide grassroots organization with over 20,000 members, is hosting Justice Works: A Conference for Progressive New York this weekend, June 4th and 5th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Albany.

The event’s keynote address will be delivered by MSNBC contributor and professor of political science Melissa Harris-Perry. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will deliver the dinner address. Executive Editor of The Nation, Betsy Reed, will moderate a plenary entitled “Unions Aren’t the Enemy: A Conversation Around the Right’s Coordinated Attack on Organized Labor.” The panel will include L. Toni Lewis, Chair of SEIU Healthcare, Steve Allinger, Director of Legislation for NYSUT, Kevin Eitzmann of the Capital District Area Labor Federation, and Robert Kraig, Executive Director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin.

Advisory: Residents Ask Beurkle Why She Wants to End Medicare and Give Tax Cuts to Rich

Jun 28, 2011 |

Syracuse, NY – Citizen Action of New York and 1199SEIU will mark the tenth anniversary of the day George W. Bush signed into law a $1.35 trillion tax cut (June 7, 2011) by asking tough questions of Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle (R-25th) on Medicare and taxes at a town hall meeting on Wednesday, June 8th in Palmyra. Buerkle is on record as supporting the Bush era 2001 tax cuts that primarily benefited the wealthiest Americans while leaving our country with massive debt, and ending Medicare as we know it.

Release: On Health Exchange: Will NY Let Fox in the Hen House?

Jun 28, 2011 |

Albany, NY – In the last few days of this year’s legislative session, insurance companies are promoting a health insurance exchange that will protect their profits, instead of protecting health care consumers. In response to the Governor’s and Senate Republican Majority’s draft proposals made public by the media yesterday, Citizen Action of New York is mobilizing it’s 20,000+ member base to call on the State Legislature to instead adopt a version of the exchange that protects consumers.

Statement: Citizen Action Responds to Introduction of Senate Health Exchange Bil

Jun 28, 2011 |

“Citizen Action is disappointed that the Senate Health Exchange bill fails to protect consumers from insurance industry abuses. The bill (S5652) allows the insurance industry to have a large voice in governing itself, and fails to protect consumers from sky-rocketing health insurance rates and from health plans that don’t cover people when they get hurt or sick. The goal of the Affordable Care Act is to provide everyone with affordable, quality insurance. New York State should meet that goal with a health Exchange that has a governing structure with no conflicts of interest, and the authority to select good plans at affordable prices to offer New York consumers and small businesses.

Advisory: Governor’s Health Exchange Bill to Save New Yorkers Money

Jun 28, 2011 |

Albany, NY – On Thursday, member organizations of Health Care for All New York, joined by representatives of community groups, labor unions, and others interested in protecting New York’s health care consumers will gather outside the Senate chamber in the Capitol to call on the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that will authorize the creation of a Health Benefit Exchange in New York State.

With Session Soon Ending, Health Care Advocates, Unions and Consumers Call For Urgent Action on Health Exchange

Jun 28, 2011 |

With Session Soon Ending, Health Care Advocates, Unions and Consumers Call For Urgent Action on Health Exchange

Governor’s Bill Would Lower Health Care Costs and Save New Yorkers Money

Albany, NY – With just two more scheduled working days in the 2011 legislative session, a large group of health care advocates, labor unions, community organizations, and concerned health care consumers gathered outside the Senate Chamber in the Capitol to urge the Legislature to pass legislation that would authorize the creation of a Health Benefit Exchange in New York State.