Tag Archives: health care reform
Medicaid Reform and Retrenchment: Your Voice is Needed NOW
As many of you know, Governor Cuomo has created a “Medicaid Redesign Team” to help him cut New York’s Medicaid program by $2 billion and redesign it for the long-term. This 27-member team is made up of only one statewide … Continue reading
Leaving Undocumented Immigrants Behind
This post is by Shena Elrington, Staff Attorney and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Public Interest Fellow in the Health Justice Program at NYLPI. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. The … Continue reading
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Combine and Conquer: The Day Immigration Met Health Reform in Our Nation’s Capitol
By, Nisha Agarwal, Director of the NYLPI Health Justice Program. Right now, five hundred thousand immigrants and their allies are rallying in Washington, DC, having traveled from across the country in caravans of buses to demand humane and just immigration … Continue reading
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Immigrants Are Largely Left Out of Health Reform
From our friends at the New York Immigration Coalition, a new report on immigrants in health reform and the barriers that immigrants face to getting insurance in general. Immigrants, both those residing lawfully in the United States and those who … Continue reading
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Squeaky Wheels: Community Advocacy and Healthcare in Southeast Queens
This post is by Equal Justice Works Fellow Seth Cohen, an attorney at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI). Seth’s EJW Fellowship is sponsored by Johnson & Johnson and Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. As we have … Continue reading
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Update: Immigrants and Health Reform
This update comes to us courtesy of our friends at the New York Immigration Coalition. Congressional leaders and President Obama are back after taking a break for the holidays and passage on Christmas Eve of the Senate’s health reform bill, … Continue reading
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Ensuring Health Equity in Health Reform
Over 250 organizations from across the country signed on to support the inclusion of health equity provisions in the federal health reform package. Below is the letter that was sent to the Senate Majority Leader and relevant committee chairs. A … Continue reading
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Go Out & Make Me Do It
Below is an email about federal health reform circulated to the comm-org listserv by Peter Dreier, a very thoughtful scholar of urban inequality and community organizing, that is right on as far as our mission as progressive health advocates is … Continue reading
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NYC Health Reform Rally – A Look Back
Yesterday afternoon, 3,000 New York City residents gathered to show their support for federal health reform and, in particular, the need for a public option. Here are some of the images we were able to capture from the day.
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Hate and the Politics of Health Reform
Raucous right-wing outbursts against health reform have been garnering a lot of attention lately, including within community organizing fora such as comm-org, whose editor recently asked: “Are right wing groups really building grass roots organizations and engaging in strategic actions? … Continue reading
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