Title: Rx NY
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.
Subjects: Medical care, Medical policy, Public opinion
Places: New York (State), New York