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Bill Hammond
Senior Fellow
Empire Center
Bill Hammond is senior fellow for health policy at the Empire Center, an Albany-based think tank focused on New York State.
Hammond has authored reports analyzing New York’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, tracking the state’s surging Medicaid costs, and critiquing a proposed state-run single-payer health care system, among other topics.
Before joining the Empire Center in 2016, Hammond spent almost three decades in newspaper journalism, most recently as a columnist and editorial board member at the New York Daily News from 2005 to 2015.
Hammond previously worked for The New York Sun, The Daily Gazette of Schenectady and The Post-Star of Glens Falls. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Politico New York, the New York Post, City & State, the Albany Times Union, The Buffalo News and The 74.