Citizen Action drafted the first New York Health bill and persuaded the New York State Assembly to pass it for the first time in 1992. The New York Assembly was the first legislative body in the nation to pass a fully-funded universal health care plan. New York Health remains the gold standard today and one of Citizen Action's top health care priorities. New York Health covers all preventive, primary and hospital care, and also includes coverage for dental care, eye care, prescription drugs, mental health and treatment for substance abuse. All residents of New York would be covered under one health care plan.
Coverage is independent of work, health, age or income.
And no extra bills from health care providers. Less than New York spends now. That's because New York Health eliminates billions of dollars of administrative waste now spent by hundreds of insurance plans setting up different billing rules, review procedures and accounting games with thousands of New York health care providers. Future cost increases are tied to the growth of New Yorker's incomes. New York Health uses the money that the government now spends on these same health care services, from Medicaid, Medicare and other local, state and federal health care services.