Tag: Affordable Care Act

As Washington skirmishes over the future of enhanced tax credits under the Affordable Care Act, New York has relatively little to gain or lose. The number of New Yorkers using Read More

The Hochul administration's move to shrink the Essential Plan in response to federal budget cuts has exposed a surprising reality: For the past decade, immigrants have been a c Read More

One of the biggest drivers of New York's Medicaid enrollment growth over the past decade has been "emergency Medicaid" for undocumented immigrants, newly released state records show. Read More

Thanks to an absurdly wasteful federal law, New York's Essential Plan is expected to continue running billion-dollar surpluses even as state officials more than double its spending over the next several years. Read More

As Medicaid downsizes in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, reporting by New York and other states is missing data on an important group – outgoing enrollees who successfully made the switch to job-based insu Read More

The accumulated surplus of the state-run Essential Plan had ballooned to $9.9 billion as of the end of December, putting it on track to break $10 billion by the close of the fiscal year on March 31, according to newly obtained records from the comptroller's office. Read More

The state's Essential Plan has generated billions in surpluses as the program automatically drew pandemic relief money that it did not need Read More

Washington's newly enacted climate, health and tax package harbors an only-in-New York glitch: It pours even more money into the state's Essential Plan, which is sitting on a multi-billion-dollar surplus that officials Read More