Rx NY
Subtitle: a prescription for more accessible health care in NY
Contributors: Empire Center for New York State Policy; Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
Series: Special report; Special report
Publisher: Empire Center for New York State Policy
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Medical care; Medical policy; Public opinion
Other titles: Prescription NY; Prescription New York
Description: This report offers a way to make health care more accessible and affordable for all New Yorkers without expanding Medicaid. Instead, it offers market-driven reforms to make private insurance more affordable and accessible by:  Restoring flexibility to New York's health-insurance regulations to permit more innovative and diverse health-plan offerings.  Creating a guaranteed-access, high-risk pool for high-cost individuals who cannot obtain coverage through their employers and may not be "insurable" in the newly competitive individual insurance market.  Allowing low-cost, temporary health-insurance plans.  Requiring small businesses to allow employees to pay their share of premiums with pretax income, through payroll deductions.  Basing Medicaid income eligibility on fixed income limits rather than a percentage of the federal poverty limits, which don't take account of regional cost-of-living differences. Reaching out to noncitizens by targeting private insurance coverage options to them.  Making Health Savings Account-eligible plans available in the individual-insurance market.
Notes: Title from electronic t.p. (viewed on Jan. 22, 2008).

"Empire Center for New York State Policy, a project of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research."

"SR5-07 December 2007."

Includes bibliographical references.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.