State Health Reform Proposals

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New York

The following is a summary of the New York State Health Plan (S3107). To review its status, click here.

Enacts the New York State Health Plan, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents: provides for administrative structure of the plan, including its status as a public benefit corporation; provides for powers and duties of the governing board, the scope of benefits, payment mechanisms and cost controls; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to
finance the plan; establishes a mechanism to collect plan premium payments (an 8% employer premium and a 2% employee payroll premium, which may be paid by an
employer, plus a 9% premium payment on self-employment income); establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan and makes a $500,000
appropriation therefor; and directs the superintendent of insurance to examine he premium rate structure for insurance underwritten in the state and to identify that portion of premiums which are attributable to health care
expenditures due to implementation of the plan.