Wendy Darwell – President & CEO, Suburban Hospital Alliance | June 8, 2021 | Empire Report Beginning this month, hundreds of New Yorkers are eligible for expanded health insurance benefits due to provisions written into the American Rescue Plan (ARP),…
George Knauer | June 1, 2021 | Empire Report I am one of the millions of New Yorkers who have Medicare coverage. It is coverage I depend on and that I like. However, now it is in jeopardy. Albany politicians…
Justin Wilcox – Executive Director, Upstate United | June 1, 2021 | Albany Business Review For employers across Upstate New York, the topic of health care is always top of mind. This is especially true in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
Sally Pipes | March 1, 2021 | Forbes New York Democrats hope that 2021 is the year socialized medicine finally arrives in the Empire State. Senator Gustavo Rivera, the chairman of the state Senate Health Committee, is reportedly planning to introduce the…
Lev Ginsburg | February 21, 2021 | Empire Report Most people are happy with their health care coverage and don’t want to lose it. That may seem a surprising statement, but it’s a true one. While people often like to…
By Bill Hammond | January 22, 2019 | Empire Center New York State’s Legislature has emerged as a central forum in the nationwide debate over “single-payer” health care. Discussion in Albany focuses on the proposed New York Health Act, which…
The Dahill Dose Informed and insightful commentary about healthcare policy as it affects you and your community We need to take a step back and examine the details about the proposed single payer plan, the New York Health Act, which…
by Bill Hammond and Chris Pope | October 22, 2018 | New York Post The debate about a proposed single-payer health plan for New York has mostly focused on what it would cost (between $92 billion and $226 billion per…
By Michael Capaldo, Commentary -Updated 10:46 pm EDT, Thursday, September 13, 2018 The recently released RAND Corporation estimate of the costs of the NY Health Act, a state-run single-payer health plan, has been hailed as good news by single-payer advocates. A…
by Bill Hammond | August 31, 2018 | NY Torch Gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon cited a lot of statistics in favor of single-payer health care in her debate with Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday, but most of them were confused, misleading or false. Cuomo…