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Health Committee
- Mandated
Health insurance: so-called Wal-Mart bills
- PANDEMIC FLU - Business Response Plans
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- Health Care Reform Act of
2000 (HCRA)
- Medicare Part D
- Hospital Quality Measurements
- Key Contacts
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- MANDATED HEALTH INSURANCE: SO-CALLED WAL-MART BILLS
- PANDEMIC FLU - Business Response Plans
- ISSUES IN BRIEF
- HEALTH CARE COSTS
- REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS
- COUNCIL NEWS
- New
York health insurance premiums
continue to increase (November
28, 2007)
- Analysis finds
Upstate's reliance on taxpayer-subsidized health insurance
grows as employer-provided coverage shrinks (January
29, 2007)
- Governor
Spitzer: Putting patients ahead of institutions will
cut costs, improve quality in health care (January
26, 2007)
- Governor
Spitzer's State of the State
emphasizes economic revival
and government reforms; The
Governor's agenda addresses
eight of 10 top priorities
identified by Council members
in a December survey (January
3, 2007)
- Governor
Spitzer unveils broad 'Renew
New York Agenda'; Initiative
includes reforms to workers'
comp and the Wicks Law, middle-class
property-tax relief, and
steps to increase energy
supplies (January
2, 2007)
- Extra
business costs in New York
total more than $35 billion,
Public Policy Institute study
finds (December 26,
2006)
- New
Business Council survey:
New York State employers
say health-insurance costs
and costs of workers' comp,
energy, and business taxes
are their top policy concerns (December
19, 2006)
- Key
state commission recommends
restructuring of New York's
hospital and nursing-home
systems 9/28/06
- Experts
urge consumer choice in health care 9/29/2006
- Panel:
controlling excess capacity is one way to bring state's
health-care costs down 9/25/2006
- State's
liability for retiree health care: $47 billion 8/21/06
- Massachusetts
taxpayer advocate briefs Council on Bay State's health-insurance
policy innovation 5/15/06
- Blue-ribbon
commission's report documents trends in population,
health care that show need to shrink capacity in health-care
sector April 4, 2006
- Spitzer
outlines a broad agenda for health-care policy change;
he
argues that New York can increase Medicaid enrollment
and still cut costs January 18, 2006
- HEALTH COMMITTEE NEWS
- LEGISLATIVE
MEMOS 2007-08
- HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT OF
2000 (HCRA)
- MEDICAID
- New
York Continues to be First
in Nation in Per-capita
Medicaid Spending (November
1, 2007)
- Spitzer outlines
a broad agenda for health-care policy change; he
argues that New York can increase Medicaid enrollment
and still cut costs (January 18, 2006)
- New analysis
shows New York spends more than twice the per-capita
national average on Medicaid (January 13,
2006)
- New
York raised taxes more, cut Medicaid less than other
states during budget crises, study finds (August
22, 2005)
- Study:
New York increased Medicaid spending despite sharp
decline in tax revenue during recent economic slowdown (May
10, 2005)
- Latest
Medicaid Watch ’05 briefing paper shows other
states are considering major reforms to Medicaid
and asks: ‘Why shouldn’t New York?” (April
7, 2005)
- No
one knows whether New York's extra billions in Medicaid
spending are paying off, report says 4/4/05
- Health
Care Reform Act initially slowed spending, but New
York's hospital system is growing again, report shows
- Medicaid
spending on elderly is billions higher in New York,
but care may not be better, report shows 3/28/05
- Report:
New York must control Medicaid's hospital spending 3/24/05
- Business
leaders, county executives, farmers rally for Medicaid
reform in Albany 3/22/05
- Report:
To restrain Medicaid spending, New York should emulate
Massachusetts 3/21/05
- Report:
New York's high Medicaid costs are driven by spending
on "all of the above" 3/17/05
- State
Assemblyman Robin Schimminger (D-Kenmore) has introduced
a nine-bill Medicaid reform package 3/3/05
- New
York State’s county officials, farmers, and
business leaders hold two more rallies to urge Albany
to give Medicaid relief to counties, taxpayers 3/2/05
- New
York State's county officials, farmers, and business
leaders launch series of rallies to urge Albany to
give Medicaid relief to counties, taxpayers 2/17/05
- Walsh:
New York's success enacting welfare reform proves
that Medicaid reform is politically possible 2/1/05
- Council:
Report on threat of Medicaid-driven county tax hikes
intensifies need for Medicaid reform in Albany 1/14/05
- MEDICARE PART D
- HOSPITAL QUALITY MEASUREMENT
- KEY
CONTACTS
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