- Published “Implementing Federal Health Care Reform: A Roadmap for New York State” in August 2010. The 93-page roadmap summarized and analyzed the ACA’s implications for New York in three issue areas: coverage; access for the insured and uninsured; and payment and delivery system reform. Among the report’s findings:
- More than 2 million New Yorkers, or 85% of the total nonelderly uninsured in the State, would have access to health insurance, with more than 1 million uninsured New Yorkers expected to obtain health coverage;
- An estimated 90,000 individuals would become newly eligible for Medicaid;
- Nearly 700,000 New Yorkers would become eligible to receive federal tax subsidies to purchase coverage through the NY State of Health Marketplace, the State’s official health benefit exchange;
- An additional 340,000 uninsured people would become eligible to purchase coverage through the Marketplace but without federal subsidies; and
- An estimated 400,000 undocumented and uninsured immigrants could remain uncovered because ACA does not extend coverage to undocumented immigrants.
After its release, the report received statewide attention from the media, including Newsday, The Post-Standard, The Buffalo News, Times Union, Crain’s New York Business, New York Post, NY1, WAMC, and WNYC. The report also received favorable attention from State policymakers, insurers, providers, and consumer representatives both within New York and nationally. Specifically, the report was listed as an official resource for the Health Care Reform Advisory Committee, established by former Governor David A. Paterson, to advise State agencies and make recommendations on federal health reform implementation. It is also a featured resource on the New York State Department of Health’s website on federal health reform. After its release, the report was circulated by New York State’s Medicaid director to other Medicaid directors across the country. National health philanthropies, such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, also used the report to develop their grantmaking strategies in response to federal health reform implementation.
