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CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK For Immediate Release: January 21, 2010 Supreme Court Opens Floodgates to Unlimited Corporate Campaign Spending Public...

For Immediate Release: January 11, 2010 For More Information: Charlie Albanetti Citizen Action of New York Launches StandUpScott.org Urging Rep....

For Immediate Release: January 6, 2010 For More Information: Bob Cohen: 518.465.4600 x 104, 518.265.6183 State of the State Opens Door to Public...

New York City Organizing Committee For Immediate Release: November 12, 2009 Rally Thanks NYC Congressional Home Team for Victory on Health Care in...

For Immediate Release: November 12, 2009 Capital District Health Reform Advocates Thank Rep. Tonko for Historic House Vote Urge Senators Schumer and...

For Immediate Release: November 8, 2009 New York Health Care for America Now Thanks New York State Democratic Members of Congress Who Voted for...

For Immediate Release: October 29, 2009 For More Information: Te Revesz: [email protected] Marc Landis: [email protected] New York,...

For Immediate Release: October 13, 2009 Albany, NY -- Health Care for America Now (HCAN) in New York State released the following statement in...

For Immediate Release: October 12, 2009 For More Information: Pam Bennett, 212.249.3400, 212.523.0180 x 23 Statement by Pam Bennett, Director,...

Albany, NY — Health care leaders in New York State thanked the Senator for offering an amendment to the health care legislation being worked out by the Senate Finance Committee this week that would ensure that private health insurance companies are held accountable by inclusion of a strong public health insurance option in the bill.

For Immediate Release: October 1, 2009 For More Information: Chris Scoville, 518.465.4600 x 115, 518.810.9604 Bob Cohen, 518.465,4600 x104,...

Albany, NY – As health insurance companies spend $641,000 a day to oppose health care reform, supporters of Health Care for America Now (HCAN) protested today outside the Albany Customer and Support Services Center of GHI-HIP. They were reacting to an analysis prepared by the Public Policy and Education Fund (PPEF), based on state customer service data, showing that the company has one of the worst customer service records of any health insurer in the state.

“Today we learned that Mike Bloomberg and his mayoral campaign committee have failed to disclose over $3.3 million in political contributions as...

Albany, NY – Citizens gathered outside the federal building yesterday to express that health care reform without a strong public option is not reform and to urge local congress members to take this message back with them to DC when they return from their August recess. “Over the past few days the importance of the public option to health care reform has been downplayed and Americans are not going to stand idly by while they watch real reform slip away with the dismissal of the public option,” said organizer Chris Scoville of Citizen Action of New York. President Obama and members of congress have pushed for the public option as the key element in any health care reform. The groups represented at this rally wanted to make sure their elected officials keep their promise to the American people and don’t allow the insurance lobby to negotiate the public option out of the bill.

Saratoga Springs, NY – As, Congress continues to debate how to pay for health care reform, Citizen Action today praised a proposed “surcharge” on the income of couples making over $350,000 annually, saying that a fair tax plan is the only reasonable means to achieve health care for all, because it would make reform affordable for struggling New Yorkers. Citizen Action released two studies today that together show that health care is becoming increasing unaffordable in New York, but that the surcharge proposal would address the issue of affordability without raising taxes on average New Yorkers.