(Released January 5th, 2012) Public Policy and Education Fund of New York (PPEF). Health care reform will likely rear its head as, if not the most, one of the most controversial issues of the 2012 political year in New York. But any conversation about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) must begin with the facts. Those facts include the ways small businesses and individual New Yorkers are significantly benefiting right now from the 2010 federal law. The additional benefits to consumers and small...
(Released January 20, 2011) Policy and Education Fund of New York (PPEF). The report makes numerous recommendations for the state implementation of the new federal law in New York State. The recommendations cover five major areas: 1) consumer-oriented governance; 2) consumer assistance; 3) affordable health insurance rates; 4) consumer rights; and 5) reduction of racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Among the report’s major recommendations are:
strong consumer representation on the...
(Released June 8, 2010) The “state fiscal relief” that was included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) played a major role in allowing New York and the other states to balance their 2009-10 with fewer budget cuts and fewer tax increases than would have been necessary otherwise. This “state fiscal relief” should be extended so that its phase-out dovetails more closely with the recovery of the 50 states’ economies and finances.
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(Released August 15, 2009 ) The following powerpoints (“How to Fund Health Care and Other Human Needs” and “The Real Facts About Health Care Reform and Our Community”) were produced by Public Policy and Education Fund of New York, Fiscal Policy Institute, and New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness for teach-ins held throughout New York State in Fall of 2009.
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(Released September 22, 2009) The analysis found that United Healthcare has the third worst ranking of any of the 46 health insurers in the state. In addition to being ranked 44th of the 46 insurers in all categories of health insurers (HMOs, non-profit indemnity insurers, and commercial insurers), United Healthcare has the worst record (29th of 29) for complaints among commercial insurers.
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(Released September 22, 2009) The PPEF analysis found that each of the 3 GHI/HIP plans is at or near the bottom of the ranking for its category of insurer and for all insurers for consumer complaints. For example, GHI HMO Select is 13th of the 13 HMOs in the state (i.e. the worst of the 13) in the complaint rankings, and 46th of 46 for all insurers. Similarly, GHI’s indemnity plan ranks 41st of all of 46 insurers in the state.
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(Released June 15, 2009) This report documents small business owners’ experiences with private health insurance and perspectives on different reform proposals – insights gained through the collection of 200 surveys from small business owners. 80 of the 200 surveys were collected by PPEF and our Long Island affiliate, the Long Island Progressive Coalition.
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(Released March 3, 2009) This report examines the impact of the Executive Budget on people of color in several major policy areas: education, higher education, health care, human services, and criminal and juvenile justice. (It is therefore a snapshot of a few major policy areas; it does not present a full picture of the Executive Budget.) We looked at key policy and spending proposals in the Executive Budget in order to determine whether there will be an unfair impact on communities of color....
(Released March 21, 2008) A survey of whether New York hospitals are complying with a landmark law that took effect in 2007 to protect uninsured New Yorkers from high hospital bills found that many hospitals were voluntarily offering greater financial assistance than the law requires. However, the survey also found that the great majority of hospital policies had major areas where hospitals did not follow the law.
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(Released March 22, 2006) More than 5.6 million New Yorkers, one-out-of three people under the age of 65, did not have health coverage for all or part of 2002-2003, according to a June 2004 report released by Families USA. Most of these New Yorkers, 65%, went without health insurance for six months or longer. According to a report from the National Institutes of Health, 18,000 Americans die prematurely each year due to the lack of health insurance.
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