NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Guarantees Comprehensive Health Care for All

[polychronopolous]

NYC Mayor Guarantees Comprehensive Health Care for All in Historic Surprise Announcement




New York City will begin guaranteeing comprehensive health care to every single resident regardless of someone's ability to pay or immigration status, an unprecedented plan that will protect the more-than half-a-million New Yorkers currently using the ER as a primary provider, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.

It's not health insurance, his spokesman clarified after the surprise announcement on MSNBC.

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"This is the city paying for direct comprehensive care (not just ERs) for people who can't afford it, or can't get comprehensive Medicaid -- including 300,000 undocumented New Yorkers," spokesman Eric Phillips tweeted.

De Blasio said the plan will provide primary and specialty care, from pediatrics to OBGYN, geriatric, mental health and other services, to the city's roughly 600,000 uninsured. He said the city already has the foundation for such a plan -- a public health insurance option that helps get direct care to undocumented residents.

That option will be expanded, the mayor said, and supported with the addition of a new program called NYC Care. That plan will roll out in 2019 and build out over the next few years, de Blasio said. It'll cost about $100 million, Politico said.

New Yorkers will be able to access the program through the city's website or simply by calling 311. There will be no tax hikes to fund it, the mayor said.

"We'll put the money in to make it work; it's going to save us money down the line," de Blasio said on MSNBC. "We're already paying an exorbitant amount to pay for health care the wrong way when what we should be doing is helping them get the primary care."

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Additional details on the program are expected to be revealed later Tuesday.

"This has never been done in the country in a comprehensive way," de Blasio said on MSNBC. "Health care isn't just a right in theory, it must be a right in practice. And we're doing that here in this city."

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Health-Care-Guarantee-Mayor-de-Blasio-504046171.html

[Princess L]

NYC Mayor Guarantees Comprehensive Health Care for All in Historic Surprise Announcement




New York City will begin guaranteeing comprehensive health care to every single resident regardless of someone's ability to pay or immigration status, an unprecedented plan that will protect the more-than half-a-million New Yorkers currently using the ER as a primary provider, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.

It's not health insurance, his spokesman clarified after the surprise announcement on MSNBC.

White House Says Tax Refunds Will Go Out Despite Shutdown
"This is the city paying for direct comprehensive care (not just ERs) for people who can't afford it, or can't get comprehensive Medicaid -- including 300,000 undocumented New Yorkers," spokesman Eric Phillips tweeted.

De Blasio said the plan will provide primary and specialty care, from pediatrics to OBGYN, geriatric, mental health and other services, to the city's roughly 600,000 uninsured. He said the city already has the foundation for such a plan -- a public health insurance option that helps get direct care to undocumented residents.

That option will be expanded, the mayor said, and supported with the addition of a new program called NYC Care. That plan will roll out in 2019 and build out over the next few years, de Blasio said. It'll cost about $100 million, Politico said.

New Yorkers will be able to access the program through the city's website or simply by calling 311. There will be no tax hikes to fund it, the mayor said.

"We'll put the money in to make it work; it's going to save us money down the line," de Blasio said on MSNBC. "We're already paying an exorbitant amount to pay for health care the wrong way when what we should be doing is helping them get the primary care."

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Additional details on the program are expected to be revealed later Tuesday.

"This has never been done in the country in a comprehensive way," de Blasio said on MSNBC. "Health care isn't just a right in theory, it must be a right in practice. And we're doing that here in this city."

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Health-Care-Guarantee-Mayor-de-Blasio-504046171.html

Explain where the $$$ will come from.

[Thin Lizzy]

LOL

I live pretty close to the mayors mansion. He can’t even get the bathroom outside his house cleaned or repaired. There’s also a construction project right outside the Mansion that has been delayed time and time again and it’s gone over by about a year at this point.

[Soul Crusher]

Basically this communist idiot is going to make NYC like cuba or venezuela

[IroNat]

Have to check his math.

Glad I don't live in NY.

Will the rest of the state be soaked to pay for this?

[Thin Lizzy]

Have to check his math.

Glad I don't live in NY.

Will the rest of the state be soaked to pay for this?

We are ready have the highest state tax. I know a guy who worked for the Department of taxation in New York State. As soon as he retired, he moved to Florida. Lots of his coworkers did so as well.

 It’s amazing the way politicians ruin everything. Downstate you have an international city and then you go upstate and you have rivers, lakes and mountains. Yet people want to leave.

[IroNat]

We are ready have the highest state I know a guy to worked for the Department of taxation in New York State. As soon as he retired, he moved to Florida. Lots of his coworkers did so as well.

 It’s amazing the way politicians ruin everything. Downstate you have an international city and then you go upstate and you have rivers, lakes and mountains. Yet people want to leave.

Real estate taxes in some of the small rural towns in NYS are even higher than in the highly populated areas.

They have to comply with all the school tax mandates without the tax base to spread it over.

NY, NJ, CT, MA all tax and spend states.  It is a juggernaut that can't be stopped.  Nobody wants their share of the pie cut.

[Humble Narcissist]

NYC Mayor Guarantees Comprehensive Health Care for All in Historic Surprise Announcement




New York City will begin guaranteeing comprehensive health care to every single resident regardless of someone's ability to pay or immigration status, an unprecedented plan that will protect the more-than half-a-million New Yorkers currently using the ER as a primary provider, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.

It's not health insurance, his spokesman clarified after the surprise announcement on MSNBC.

White House Says Tax Refunds Will Go Out Despite Shutdown
"This is the city paying for direct comprehensive care (not just ERs) for people who can't afford it, or can't get comprehensive Medicaid -- including 300,000 undocumented New Yorkers," spokesman Eric Phillips tweeted.

De Blasio said the plan will provide primary and specialty care, from pediatrics to OBGYN, geriatric, mental health and other services, to the city's roughly 600,000 uninsured. He said the city already has the foundation for such a plan -- a public health insurance option that helps get direct care to undocumented residents.

That option will be expanded, the mayor said, and supported with the addition of a new program called NYC Care. That plan will roll out in 2019 and build out over the next few years, de Blasio said. It'll cost about $100 million, Politico said.

New Yorkers will be able to access the program through the city's website or simply by calling 311. There will be no tax hikes to fund it, the mayor said.

"We'll put the money in to make it work; it's going to save us money down the line," de Blasio said on MSNBC. "We're already paying an exorbitant amount to pay for health care the wrong way when what we should be doing is helping them get the primary care."

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Additional details on the program are expected to be revealed later Tuesday.

"This has never been done in the country in a comprehensive way," de Blasio said on MSNBC. "Health care isn't just a right in theory, it must be a right in practice. And we're doing that here in this city."

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Health-Care-Guarantee-Mayor-de-Blasio-504046171.html

I'm sure it will end well.

[Thin Lizzy]

Real estate taxes in some of the small rural towns in NYS are even higher than in the highly populated areas.

They have to comply with all the school tax mandates without the tax base to spread it over.

NY, NJ, CT, MA all tax and spend states.  It is a juggernaut that can't be stopped.  Nobody wants their share of the pie cut.

In Albany, you have all these huge government buildings teeming with activity, then you go to the business street, South Pearl, and there’s nothing but “For Rent” signs.

Albany itself is a disgusting black shithole, the kind of place you go to once and never want to back.

[Moontrane]

Quick math with no in-depth analysis:

$100,000,000 to cover 600,000 people comes out to about $167 per year per person.

That's cheaper than most eye care policies.    Which (witch!) doctors will accept the absurdly
low reimbursement rates?  Will doctors be legally compelled to accept all comers?

My new governor, Naïve Gruesome, will try to outdo Mr. Mayor.

[SOMEPARTS]

What possesses people to provide things for free that taxpayers have to pay for? It just doesn't make sense unless your goal is to erode the will of working people.

[Humble Narcissist]

What possesses people to provide things for free that taxpayers have to pay for? It just doesn't make sense unless your goal is to erode the will of working people.

Most of those who favor it don't pay taxes.  Socialism is great if you are the recipient and not the provider.

[IroNat]

As much as I think DeBlasio is a commie nut there is some logic here.

The indigent have been going to Emergency Rooms for common ailments.  A very expensive and ridiculous practice.

The Emergency Rooms have to take them and it costs whoever eats the expense a fortune.

Perhaps some of this current cost will be redirected.

This is the possible logic.

[Thin Lizzy]

As much as I think DeBlasio is a commie nut there is some logic here.

The indigent have been going to Emergency Rooms for common ailments.  A very expensive and ridiculous practice.

The Emergency Rooms have to take them and it costs whoever eats the expense a fortune.

Perhaps some of this current cost will be redirected.

This is the possible logic.

It’s just another intervention which will make things worse. The harsh reality of the healthcare system is that it needs to be stripped down and started over from scratch. This will probably never happen.

[Thin Lizzy]

This is why he is known as “Comrade” Bill. Of course, “In the wrong hands” means not in his.


Mayor de Blasio Says Wealth Is ‘in the Wrong Hands,’ Pledges to Redistribute It

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-state-of-city.html

[IroNat]

California, NY and NJ governors/mayors are trying to outdo each other with commie liberal agendas.

[SOMEPARTS]

As much as I think DeBlasio is a commie nut there is some logic here.

The indigent have been going to Emergency Rooms for common ailments.  A very expensive and ridiculous practice.

The Emergency Rooms have to take them and it costs whoever eats the expense a fortune.

Perhaps some of this current cost will be redirected.

This is the possible logic.

Every layer of govt adds cost and inefficiency. There is no spreading out here, only making the trough deeper.

[chaos]

California, NY and NJ governors/mayors are trying to outdo each other with commie liberal agendas.

Bunch of fucking morons.

[Yamcha]

This is why he is known as “Comrade” Bill. Of course, “In the wrong hands” means not in his.


Mayor de Blasio Says Wealth Is ‘in the Wrong Hands,’ Pledges to Redistribute It

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/nyregion/bill-de-blasio-state-of-city.html

according to One More Rep, "the jews own New York" - do you think they will allow for their funds to be redistributed? I don't.

[Thin Lizzy]

according to One More Rep, "the jews own New York" - do you think they will allow for their funds to be redistributed? I don't.

The real old money is in the hands of the Wasps, the descendants of Morgan, Whitney, Vanderbilt Rockefeller etc. Of course, you have some super wealthy Jews as well, and, no, neither is going to hand over their money to a commie.

That said, those types weren’t able to stop NYC from becoming a shithole in the 1970’s due to Democratic “leadership.” Thank God, for Rudy Giuliani, otherwise NYC would make Chicago look like Shangri La.

[Conker]

what a clown. universal healthcare?! that will never work. I mean, there's no working models of it anywhere in the world! just like gun control...pure fantasy!

much better to pool your money with insurance companies and let them help themselves to huge profits, than to put your money in a non profit pool. 

[Thin Lizzy]

what a clown. universal healthcare?! that will never work. I mean, there's no working models of it anywhere in the world! just like gun control...pure fantasy!

much better to pool your money with insurance companies and let them help themselves to huge profits, than to put your money in a non profit pool.  

Canada’s health-care wait times hit new record high, again - Macleans.ca


https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/canadas-health-care-wait-times-hit-new-record-high-again/


We finally did it last year. In 2016, we hit the 20-week mark for the average wait time for treatment by a specialist (across 12 medical specialities) after referral from a general practitioner. Canada’s national shame had reached a record high of 20 weeks, a far cry from the 9.3-week wait measured by the Fraser Institute’s annual survey in 1993.

[Conker]

Canada’s health-care wait times hit new record high, again - Macleans.ca


https://www.macleans.ca/society/health/canadas-health-care-wait-times-hit-new-record-high-again/


We finally did it last year. In 2016, we hit the 20-week mark for the average wait time for treatment by a specialist (across 12 medical specialities) after referral from a general practitioner. Canada’s national shame had reached a record high of 20 weeks, a far cry from the 9.3-week wait measured by the Fraser Institute’s annual survey in 1993.

"The Commonwealth Fund compared the U.S. to Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K.

America ranked last for overall performance and last or near last when it came to data points like access to care, administrative efficiency, equity and health care outcomes, according to a new report published Friday by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that strives to improve health care in America. Paradoxically, the U.S. spends more money on health care compared to other high-income countries, which is notable given its poor performance, the report states."

https://health.usnews.com/wellness/health-buzz/articles/2017-07-17/report-us-has-the-worst-health-care-system-compared-to-these-countries

[Thin Lizzy]

You are aware that the American healthcare system is over 60% controlled by the US government. That’s why it’s so inefficient.

We have a government controlled program, Medicare, which is financed to the tune of $1 trillion a year, larger than the GDP of most countries. Not surprisingly, it’s insolvent.

Europeans think that the American healthcare system is this free market wild west when it’s anything but.

[chaos]

You are aware that the American healthcare system is over 60% controlled by the US government.

Basically health care for all (illegal immigrants)