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NEWSROOM: Media Statements and Releases
July 22, 2010: Press Conference on New York’s new “Prior Approval” Law, with State Senator Suzy Oppenheimer
Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, White Plains, NY
“We advocates are gathered here today to thank and salute Governor Paterson, State Insurance Superintendent Wrynn, and Senator Oppenheimer and her colleagues in the State Legislature for restoring balance and stability to our state’s health insurance system by restoring “prior approval” of health insurance premiums. Our state government has taken a major step to make health insurance affordable, and to restore rationality to our state’s health insurance markets, instead of unchecked insurance company profiteering. Those who will directly benefit from this new law will be small businesses and non-profit organizations, individuals and families who buy coverage on their own, and seniors and people with disabilities.
Read the full statement here.
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April 1, 2010: “Thank You” Rally for NYC Congressional Delegation leadership in passing the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”
City Hall, New York
“We New Yorkers are so very, very lucky, and very, very proud to be represented by our city’s congressional delegation. They were true champions for all Americans and all New Yorkers in this fight for national health care refrom, and it is no understatement to say that comprehensive health care reform would absolutely not have happened without their leadership and tenacity. Let me tell you just a few things about some of them and what they did:”
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February 20, 2010: March Across the Brooklyn Bridge and Rally for Health Care Reform and the Change Agenda
Outside the NYC offices of Wellpoint, One Liberty Plaza, New York
“Health care reform is the wedge issue for the entire change agenda. If we can beat the strangle-hold the special interests and insurance companies on health care, then the whole rest of the change agenda will move too. And we can make change happen if we all work together, if we all say to our political leaders, “We voted for change, and we demand health care change, ...NOW!”
Read the full statement here:
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January 20, 2010: Press Conference to Support Funding for New York’s Hospitals under Health Care Reform, and in reaction to the Massachusetts Special Senate Election
City Hall, New York
“Yesterday’s vote in Massachusetts was not a referendum on health care reform. It was a referendum on particular candidates in a climate in which voters, hard pressed and frustrated by the economy, are impatient for change. When it comes to the need to make good quality health care affordable for New Yorkers, nothing is different today than it was yesterday. Congress and the President must keep going and finish reform right.”
Read the full statement here:
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