(Released September 15, 2002) Includes a side by side comparison chart.
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(Released May 12, 2002) our Right to Specialist Care: A Survey of HMOs in New York is the fourth in a series of reports that examine compliance by New York HMOs with New York’s Managed Care Bill of Rights. The current report investigates how well HMOs are following New York laws on access to specialty care.
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(Released April 17, 2002) The State of Our Schools (Part II): The Combined Effect of the 2001-02 “Bare Bones” Budget and the Proposed 2002-03 State Aid “Freeze” is the second in a series of reports analyzing the impact of state policy decisions on school districts and school children across the State of New York. This report analyzes the combined effect of last year’s “bare bones” budget and this year’s Executive Budget on the budgets of school...
(Released March 15, 2002) Report finds that during the three-year period from 1999 to 2001, Governor Pataki and state legislators received a total of $13.6 million from companies and executives of ompanies that benefit directly from corporate tax cuts.
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(Released February 14, 2002) This report finds that two years after the Governor and Legislature raised cigarette taxes to provide health coverage for one million uninsured New Yorkers, only a small fraction of those promised health insurance have actually received coverage.
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(Released January 13, 2002) The 2002 race for Governor is vitally important for the future of New York State. The person elected will be responsible for leading New York through one of the most tumultuous times in the state’s history, working for the best interests of the all of the citizens of our state. Yet money will, as always, play a huge role in the race for governor and the next four years. In the short term, it will effect the outcome of the election. In the long term, the money...
(Released January 2, 2002) The central point of this report is that the statements by some commentators, including the Governor, that school aid increased in the 2001 legislative session through the enactment of the “bare-bones” budget are completely misleading. This report analyzes the effect of the “bare-bones” budget” adopted in 2001 by the Governor and the Legislature by comparing the State aid levels of the current fiscal year (2001-02) with the previous fiscal year...
(Released December 13, 2001) The first in a series of reports on campaign finance in the 2002 New York State governor’s race to be issued by the Public Policy and Education Fund of New York.
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(Released October 2001) In 1999, Congress allowed large financial corporations – banks, brokerage firms and insurance companies – to merge when it passed the Financial Modernization Act, otherwise known as the Gramm-Leach- Bliley Act (GLBA). Throughout the debate on this legislation, consumer advocates worried that the law included too few protections to restrict corporate use of personal financial information.
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(Released October 2, 2001) PPEF tries to determine what the President’s tax-credit proposal would mean for uninsured adults in New York State by asking:
Is the proposed tax-credit enough to purchase health insurance coverage in New York State?
Is the proposed tax-credit enough to offset the cost of health insurance so that coverage is affordable for low and moderate income New Yorkers?
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