Posts Tagged ‘New York’
Unions, medical providers support universal health care in N.Y.
From the Times Union – Twelve years after he first introduced a bill to promote universal health coverage in New York, Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried thinks Obamacare may give his cause the push it needs in 2014. Federal officials have made successive fixes to address snags in the health law, formally the Affordable…
Read MoreMed Students Lobby for New Yorkers’ Health
By Claire Hughes for TimesUnion.com – Doctors must advocate for their patients’ health — with supervisors who approve procedures, for instance, or insurance companies that pay for services. On Tuesday, dozens of doctors-to-be tried different advocacy skills — lobbying state lawmakers to advance proposals they believe will improve New Yorkers’ health. “If we are not…
Read MoreTrue Single-Payer Healthcare System Being Considered in New York Assembly
From Truthout – New York State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, who represents the Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen sections of Manhattan (D-75th District), has introduced a bill to implement a true single-payer healthcare system in New York State. Although the legislation made it out of the healthcare committee of the Assembly last year, it then was basically…
Read MoreNY’s Massa Sworn In and Co-Sponsors HR 676
Within less than a week of being sworn in as the new Congressman from New York’s 29th Congressional District, Eric Massa proudly informed Rep. John Conyers that he will co-sponsor HR676. Massa also proclaimed his intent to be active in his support of the bill to provide publicly funded, privately delivered healthcare to every Amercian.…
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