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The Community Service Society (CSS) conducted a survey - "New York Statewide Poll on Health Reform, 2009" - that examined New Yorkers' views from four different regions of the state about health care costs, and their views about making health care more affordable. Lake Research Partners conducted the survey in August on behalf of CSS with 1,000 New Yorkers. Its purpose was to understand how much New Yorkers can afford to spend on health care and gauge support for various ways to increase access to affordable care. The survey was conducted in New York City, on Long Island, in upstate urban areas, and in upstate rural areas.
They want New York officials to expand public health insurance on a voluntary basis. They also say federal proposals that would require families to pay for coverage need to be more generous with subsidies than currently proposed by Congress. These findings reinforce what we hear across the state: New Yorkers are anxious about the rising costs of health care; they are paying more, getting less, and are worried that a federal solution won't provide enough help for them. The national health reform process needs to develop a solution that will benefit everyone including those of us, like New Yorkers, who live in high cost states. If not, then the state must step into the leadership void at the national level and produce policies that protect New Yorkers' access to health care and its affordability.See the full content of this document
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We Ask New Yorkers' Opinions On Health Care
It has been said that watching legislation get enacted is like making sausage. You wouldn't want to witness either or you will be put off both for life. Never has this metaphor been more accurate than during this current war over health...
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