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http://news.wbfo.org/post/advocates-hope-common-council-support-will-lead-universal-healthcare-ny
quote:For the third year in a row, a bill is traveling through the New York legislature with the goal of creating a statewide single-payer healthcare system – more commonly known as ‘universal healthcare.’ Similar bills passed the state Assembly in 2015 and 2016, but failed to gain Senate approval. With the repeal of the Affordable Care Act on the horizon, advocates see this year’s attempt as more important than ever.
The bill – currently in committee with the state Senate – was sponsored by two Manhattan Democrats – Assemblyman Richard N. Gottfried (A.4738) and Senator Bill Perkins (S.4371).
Among the highlights of its summary are the establishment of a “comprehensive system of access to health insurance” for state residents, creation of a trust fund to finance the plan, and progressive payroll-based premiums.
Buffalo Common Council Member David Rivera issued a resolution before the Council’s Community Development Committee on Tuesday, calling for support of the bill by his fellow members. He urged them to consider what life will be like in the future if healthcare remains on its current path.
“We’re going to need to go to a doctor. We’re going to need the prescription that we want. We’re going to have to pay premiums. We’re going to have to pay co-pays. And that is when our eyes are going to open up and we’re going to say, ‘Oh my goodness, we had an opportunity to do something.’ And this is the opportunity right now.”
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Free tuition at SUNY schools!
Happy kids won't have to go through hell with student loans like I did
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But I can't find the rest of the strings if any. Curious if I can get any of that sweet sweet excelsior money to go back to school.
Yeah if NY wants to fund me going back to get an MBA that's just peachy
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/nyregion/cuomo-health-insurance-affordable-care-act-repeal.html?pagewanted=all
quote:Striking pre-emptively at an increasingly frequent foil, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to announce a series of steps on Monday to safeguard insurance coverage against a possible repeal of all or parts of the Affordable Care Act in Washington.
The measures, taken via emergency regulations, will include requiring any private company doing business on the state’s insurance marketplace to guarantee the 10 “essential health benefits” required by President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 health care law. The governor will also direct the state’s health department to block any company that withdraws from the exchange from participating in Medicaid or its children’s health plan.
In a statement, the governor, a Democrat, said that “health care is a human right,” noting that he had also firmed plans to ensure contraceptive and abortion protections, something he initially outlined in January.
“With Washington trying to take a wrecking ball to our health care system, we are taking concrete steps to ensure core protections of the Affordable Care Act remain intact,” Mr. Cuomo said, adding that he would direct his Department of Financial Services to prevent any discrimination based on gender, age or pre-existing conditions, a politically charged topic in the health care debate. “New Yorkers will continue to have access to the quality medical care they need and deserve.”
This is cool and good - all the blue states should follow suit
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How's the single payer bill coming along?
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- EugeneJ
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That account has been posting nonsense about Brindisi for years and apparently hates him and liberalism, I wouldn't take it seriously
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How's that single payer bill coming along, Andrew?
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/911953214639165441
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Erie county's racist sheriff who keeps the county jail staff afraid of forced overtime MIGHT lose to a black FBI agent
But yeah, we're not... we're not good over here
https://twitter.com/ClaudineWgrz/status/928115908182200320
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But yeah, we're not... we're not good over here
DSA member Brian Nowak just got elected to Cheektowaga Town Council
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http://buffalonews.com/2017/12/21/cuomo-calls-for-tougher-revenge-porn-laws/
quote:Individuals convicted of engaging in “revenge porn” and sexual extortion will be required to register as sex offenders under a plan Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo proposed Thursday.
Cuomo said he wants stronger penalties against those who disseminate or threaten to disclose sexual images or videos of someone without their consent, which is known as revenge porn. The plan also targets sextortion, which typically involves threats to disseminate private information about someone unless they provide money or sexual favors or images.
“The dangerous proliferation of sextortion and revenge crimes disproportionately targets young women and girls and causes harm and embarrassment that can follow victims their entire lives,’’ Cuomo said Thursday.
Finally Anthony Weiner can send dick pics to random women without fear of repercussions
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what's stopping the IDC from reforming the minute Cuomo gets re-elected?
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http://www.wben.com/articles/buffalo-school-board-member-quits-over-nursing-contract
quote:Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - The Buffalo School Board member who took the ousted Carl Paladino's seat has resigned from her position in protest after the Board's vote to switch nursing providers.
Catherine Flanagan-Priore resigned in a closed session, the Buffalo School Board confirmed to WBEN. Flanagan-Priore had earlier recused herself from the board's vote to replace Kaleida nurses with nurses from Sunbelt Staffing and Supplemental Healthcare because she is also a Kaleida employee, working as a pediatric psychologist at Children's Hospital.
Flanagan-Priore replaced Paladino as the Board member for the Park district in September.
"welp, my company no longer has a contract with this city, I can no longer help my company the children"
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https://www.wgrz.com/article/money/business/8-weeks-paid-time-off-work-for-a-death-in-the-family/71-578781309
quote:8 weeks paid time-off work for a death in the family?
It got very little attention, but in the final days of the State Assembly's 2018 session, it passed a bill adding bereavement to New York's Paid Family Leave Law.
Author: Steve Brown
Published: 6:01 PM EDT July 30, 2018
Updated: 6:22 PM EDT July 30, 2018
NORTH TONAWANDA — "That will destroy some small businesses.”
Bob Confer thinks a bill headed to Governor Cuomo's desk is a very bad idea.
“I see the greatest issue would be you’ve got government getting into the business of running people’s business for them," says Confer.
The president of Confer Plastic of North Tonawanda is talking about legislation which would add bereavement to the state's new Paid Family Leave Law.
The law went into effect this year. A small deduction from every paycheck (less than two cents for every ten dollars earned) funds paid leave for most New York workers. The pay is 50% of an employees average wage. It's capped currently at a maximum benefit just shy of $653 dollars.
Currently eligible are parents welcoming new children into their home (including foster children), workers caring for a sick relative, or those needing time before heading off for military deployment.
Time-off is being phased in. Eligible workers can opt for up to eight weeks paid leave this year. Next year, it grows to ten-weeks. It'll be a dozen weeks come 2021.
Confer's firm grants three-days off with pay when a family member passes away with option for using personal or vacation time, too.
He says small businesses may struggle if a highly-skilled employee is gone for weeks at a time.
2 On-Your-Side reached out to Governor's office asking whether Cuomo may sign the bill into law.
In an email spokesman Richard Azzopardi wrote, "It's one of more than 500 [bills] that passed both houses of the legislature in the final weeks of session. It remains under review by Counsel's Office."
So wait is he actually signing this or not
I'm guessing not
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and NYC is hot garbage and skews everything
get to the rest of the state, please
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WILLIAMS IS LEADING HOCHUL
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Teachout leading in Manhattan
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NY Times has called it for Cuomo
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so can we say that nixon didn't run a great campaign yet or is it too soon
I want her to help Williams reintroduce single-payer in the NY state legislature and force Cuomo to sign it
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Williams losing ground to Hochul as the upstate chud votes pour in
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Williams had 121,000 votes from Brooklyn alone, I don't know if that's enough to hold him upstate
Guessing no
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Teachout is starting to win counties upstate, with a lot left that haven't reported
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Erie County by itself is gonna flip it UGH
Buffalo is a racist hellhole
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NY Times has called the AG race for Letitia James
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NY Times called race for Hochul
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“The Problem Solvers group is a big deal,” No Labels Honorary Co-Chair Senator Joe Manchin says. “They can help break the bad habits that have developed in Washington, where people have developed this attitude that you’re only worth talking to if you’re on my team – the Ds or the Rs. We’ll prove that ultimately, we’re all on the same team.”
I mean, he's not wrong.
He was chosen to take away votes from the progressive white lady because he had an irish-sounding name
No Labels Problem Solvers sounds more like an escort service where you can rent politicians
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https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/cuomo-advances-casino-cash/71-598372496
quote:Governor Cuomo visited Western New York today and brought with him a gift for the cash-strapped city of Niagara Falls.
“Niagara Falls is suffering and the state wants to do what it can do to be helpful.”
Cuomo announced he would advance to the city, $12.3 million. It is the amount of money Niagara Falls would have received in its share of revenue from the Seneca Nation casino.
The Senecas believe the revenue-sharing deal it had with state and local governments expired at the end of March of 2017. Since then, the Senecas stopped making payments. The city’s take of the revenue had become a vital to keeping the city budget afloat.
The Governor’s announcement was a complete reversal from a year ago. When asked last September whether state government would help Niagara Falls, Cuomo scoffed at the idea.
“They got paid when the state got paid, but why would I every guarantee their loss? You know, maybe they want to make up the shortfall to me.”
And then the Governor laughed as he walked away.
Falls Mayor Paul Dyster says that Cuomo quip never bothered him.
“Because we knew what we were discussing behind the scenes even at that time,” says Dyster.
Mayor Dyster said his administration has had many discussions about the Seneca dispute with state officials which culminated with today’s announcement.
The money is badly needed. The city faces a $13.9 million budget shortfall. Without it, Dyster says deep cuts and tax increases were being considered.
What a gigantic piece of poo poo this Cuomo guy is
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https://patch.com/new-york/nanuet/learn-ny-single-payer-health-care-proposal-sunday
quote:Learn About NY Single-Payer Health Care Proposal Sunday
Want to know the details? A forum will be held at the Nanuet Library.
By Lanning Taliaferro, Patch Staff | Feb 7, 2019 9:49 am ET
NANUET, NY – Learn about the single-payer health care bill that's under consideration in Albany this Sunday at the Nanuet Library.
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, chair of the State Assembly Health Committee, will appear at an information session to answer questions about his bill, the New York Health Act. He will also speak about its chances for passage.
"We are so pleased to have Assemblyman Gottfried coming to Rockland to tell us about legislators' efforts to move forward this important bill that will finally provide universal health care for all New Yorkers, and save our state billions," said Gina Ironside, President of Rockland Citizens Action Network, lead sponsor of the forum.
Last year an independent study by the Rand Corporation affirmed that the New York Health Act would indeed cut costs, and add quality, according to Rockland CAN. Health care spending by New Yorkers would remain the same through 2022 and by 2031, costs would be 3 percent lower - about $15 billion less.
Tax increases to pay for the new system would be more than offset by elimination of personal health care costs, and by a reduction in local taxes since municipalities would no longer be responsible for paying insurance costs of employees- teachers, police, etc. Residents would no longer have co-pays, deductibles, or premiums, and care would be free at point of service. The plan would cover comprehensive outpatient and inpatient care, primary and preventative care, prescription drugs and laboratory tests, rehabilitative care, and dental, vision and hearing on top of all benefits currently required by state insurance law, Rockland CAN said.
The bill has passed in the Assembly the last four years, but has never made it out of committee in the Senate, which had been controlled by Republicans. With a solid majority of Democrats now in control, many of them new progressives who ran on a platform of promoting single payer, universal health care, it now is possible that the bill could make it out of committee and be approved by both houses of the legislature.
Gottfried is expected to answer questions about what the bill means for Rockland residents and families, and to talk about efforts to overcome remaining obstacles to the bill's passage and enactment which he and other legislators are working out.
"RAND shows we can make sure every New Yorker gets the care they need and does not suffer financially to get it; save billions of dollars a year by cutting administrative costs, insurance company profit, and outrageous drug prices; and pay for it all more fairly," Gottfried says about the study.
Besides Rockland CAN, the forum is sponsored by the American Association of University Women-Rockland; League of Women Voters; Phi Beta Sigma Fratertnity; Orangetown Democratic Committee; Piermont Democratic Committee; Rockland Coalition to End the New Jim Crow; Rockland County Democratic legislators, and the Spring Valley NAACP Health Committee.
Cuomo would veto it, wouldn't he
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Wouldn't this be economic suicide, destroying state tax revenue?
The populous areas like Buffalo/Rochester/Albany are all blue, but I wonder if the chuds could make a go of it
https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/new-york/governor/
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It's kind of sad how Buffalo is like "LOOK AT OUR WATERFRONT IT'S BEAUTIFUL NOW" but after you leave the 10 blocks of Canalside, 95% of the city lives in crippling poverty
If Upstate seceded and residents no longer had Medicaid...things would get very ugly very fast
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What if Upstate seceded, but then said "actually Niagara Falls is ours - now NYC gets no electricity!" for leverage, and then Upstate could tax downstate residents up the rear end to fund their new state
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