Governor Cuomo has issued an executive order, telling health care and insurance providers they have to keep giving New Yorkers the coverage mandated under Obamacare. Cuomo is applying the Affordable Care Act principals requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions and not to discriminate by age or gender. That makes New York the first state to […]
A new Siena Poll finds last week’s failure by House Republicans to pass their American Health Care Act is seen as a victory by a majority of New York voters. The poll finds New Yorkers were opposed to the ACHA 56-27 percent as a replacement for President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. An even bigger margin, […]
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of Rochester is one of four U.S. Representatives leading 174 members of Congress in urging President-Elect Trump not to sign a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Slaughter wrote the letter with Representatives Diana DeGette, Jan Schakowsky and Katherine Clark. It says repealing the ACA would have a disproportionately negative effect on […]