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Senate Bill S333
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 46th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D) Senate District
(D, WF) Senate District
(D, WF) Senate District
(D, WF) 28th Senate District
2009-S333 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Finance
- Law Section:
- Commissions
2009-S333 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Creates a health care financing commission to help establish a unified health care system in New York state; such system will: (a) provide fair, simple and accountable health care financing for all New York state residents; (b) define a comprehensive package of effective and necessary personal health services; (c) allow health care insurance to be independent from employment
2009-S333 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S333 TITLE OF BILL : An act to create a health care financing commission PURPOSE : To create the New York State Health Care Financing Commission JUSTIFICATION : There are over 2.5 million New Yorkers currently without any type of health insurance. That is approximately 13.2% of the state's population. The problem of the uninsured is one of America's biggest health challenges. The number of the uninsured is continuing to grow for a variety of reasons, As the economy has weakened, more people have become unemployed and lost their health care coverage. Millions of Americans lost their health insurance benefits due to job loss. Also, health care costs are rising at double-digit annual rates which makes health coverage increasingly unaffordable for both employers and consumers. Too many families do not have access to affordable health insurance and they live sicker and die younger as a result. It is becoming increasingly clear that incremental reforms to address this problem are not effective. The objective of the health care financing commission will be to create a detailed proposal for a unified financing system for health services for all New York State residents through a plan that emphasizes comprehensive health care including preventive and long-term care, quality of care, choice of provider,
2009-S333 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 333 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BRESLIN, DILAN, DUANE, HASSELL-THOMPSON, KRUEGER, ONORATO, PARKER, SAMPSON, SMITH, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to create a health care financing commission THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and declares there is a crisis in health care access, affordability and choice in New York state. Health care financing through insurance compa- nies has failed to control the costs, increase access or preserve choice. Many clinics, physicians' practices and emergency departments, especially in rural areas, are closing or operating at a loss. Employ- ers, faced with fewer choices and more expensive premiums, are reducing health coverage offered to employees. The legislature further finds that simplifying health care financing and eliminating administrative waste inherent in multiple insurance plans can create sufficient savings to extend health care insurance to many New York state residents and enhance fairness in the system. The legislature finds that the creation of a health care financing commission will help create a unified health care financing system that will: (a) provide fair, simple and accountable health care financing for all New York state residents; (b) define a comprehensive package of effective and necessary personal health services; (c) allow health care insurance to be independent from employment; (d) provide a system of multiple insurers; (e) generate savings sufficient to provide health insurance to all New York state residents; (f) integrate current public- ly sponsored health programs into the unified health care financing system; (g) preserve the choice of providers; (h) protect patient's rights; (i) keep clinical decisions in the hands of professionals and patients, rather than administrative personnel; (j) promote health care EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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