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Coverage For All

Coverage For All

  • New Yorkers Deserve Health Equity; Fully Funding Safety Net Hospitals and Expanding Health Insurance to All is How To Do It

    Advocates rally for the Coverage for All bill in Albany (photo: Daniel Altschuler/@altochulo)


    After the last three years, New York’s health care system continues to face an unprecedented crisis – particularly for safety net hospitals located in historically marginalized communities that primarily serve uninsured patients struggling to access care. These are the same low-income neighborhoods that bore the brunt of COVID-19 and have long suffered from the effects of New York’s two-tiered health care system. To reduce health inequities, the State must fix the

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