This Columbia University report, funded by NYSHealth, models five plans to reduce the number of uninsured in New York State. The analysis indicates that the plans differ vastly in both their potential impact on the problem and costs. This is the first model to compare proposals on the basis of the number of people who would gain coverage; drop private coverage in favor of public options; and how each plan would increase statewide health care spending, including the cost to State government to finance expansions.

CHCANYS teamed up with the Empire Justice Center, the statewide legal services organization, to develop this handbook detailing health care coverage for immigrants.

New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage and the New York Immigration Coalition have produced an analysis of the potential impact of the nine leading proposals for health reform on immigrants. The NYSHealth-funded report is part of a broad analysis of how health coverage among immigrants can be increased.

Approximately one-third of enrollees in New York State's public health insurance programs-Medicaid, Child Heath Plus, and Family Health Plus-fail to complete the annual recertification process and lose coverage despite remaining eligible, according to this NYSHealth-funded study conducted by Lake Research Partners. Some former beneficiaries manage to reenroll months later, resulting in a high churn rate that undermines efforts to provide continuous and stable health insurance to low-income New Yorkers.

This NYSHealth-funded issue brief by the Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) reviews public health insurance policies implemented in 2007 and 2008 that may have collectively influenced child and adult enrollment in 2008.

In response to the growing number of New Yorkers who risk losing health
insurance coverage in the current troubled economy, the United Hospital Fund prepared this guide with support from the New York State Health Foundation.

According to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the competitiveness of the small-group market, the largest carriers in the small-group health insurance market have increased their average market share since 2002.

Some national health reform proposals would create a “public plan” that would compete for enrollment with the private insurance industry. The details of such a plan would work are uncertain. This paper presents impact estimates under several variations on the public plan model. Each variation assumes that the public plan is implemented together with President Obama’s coverage expansion proposals, which are estimated to cover about 28 million uninsured people.

This Special Edition of the Medicaid Update highlights the reform measures advanced in this year’s Budget.

This NYSHealth-funded survey conducted by PHI (formerly the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute) finds that only 25% of home care workers employed by Upstate agencies have employer-sponsored health insurance.