The Manhattan Institute For Policy Research

Grant Status

Completed

Project Title

Conference on Solving the Problem of New York State’s Uninsured

Award Amount

$215,591

Location

Manhattan

Web Site

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/

Date Awarded

July 1, 2007

The Manhattan Institute’s project will fund two conferences through the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress. The conferences will review who goes without insurance coverage in New York State and what regulatory and market changes might allow them to be served at a price they can afford.

The first conference will stress that a one-size-fits-all solution to the health insurance crisis is unlikely to address the diverse group of uninsured, which includes young adults, working poor households, and the self-employed middle class. The second conference will examine potential approaches to extending health insurance coverage throughout the State. It will examine “universal plans” under consideration in other states and raise the broad question of how to make health insurance affordable to people with modest incomes in ways that meet society's responsibility to care for the sick and injured and at the same time make it economically efficient.

This project is part of the NYS Health Coverage Consortium.