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New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits

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10/28/2015

... Remember how complicated it was to understand your health care benefits when you got your first real job? Now ... imagine trying to figure it out if all the information was in another language. That is exactly...

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Commonwealth Fund Survey Finds People May Be Choosing the Wrong Obamacare Plan

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11/06/2015

... May Be Choosing the Wrong Obamacare Plan Shopping for health insurance can be a baffling maze of unfamiliar terms ... at the Commonwealth Fund have identified is that some health care shoppers are unaware of...

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Opinion: Ending the Revolving Door of Homelessness (New York Community Trust)

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01/06/2016

... New York should draw on approaches that have helped in the past as well as those that seem promising, especially ... which offers job training, debt counseling, mental health care, and other crucial services...

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Mortality Rates for Middle-Aged Whites Not Just About Drugs, Suicide, Says Commonwealth Fund

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02/01/2016

... middle-aged whites reported worsening self-reported health status, greater levels of pain, increased difficulty ... of daily living, and more mental health problems. In January 2016, the New...

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DNAinfo Highlights Senior Profiles Supported by New York Community Trust

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02/04/2016

... soda and wheeling around on a motorized tricycle covered in roosters and adorned with a banner hailing his Puerto ... Center at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and led by journalist...

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Aging

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Presidential Candidates Ignore Long-Term Care Issues (United Hospital Fund)

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02/10/2016

... and director of the United Hospital Fund’s Families and Health Care Project, which develops partnerships between the health care community and family caregivers. . . ...

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WSJ Op-ed by Commonwealth Fund President Notes Potential Fallout to Repealing the ACA

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03/08/2016

... Fallout to Repealing the ACA The initial National Health Interview Survey results published last month by the ... became law. Twenty million fewer Americans were uninsured in the first nine months of 2015 than...

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Funders Need Good Data to Evaluate Programs That Decriminalize Drug Addiction

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09/20/2016

... comments on the recent PNY Program, " Intersections of Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’s ... Vera’s work on bail reform and pretrial justice in New York City, with a focus on...

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Request for Letters of Inquiry – Liberty Fund at The New York Community Trust

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01/03/2017

... immediate issues affecting vulnerable New Yorkers in this moment of change. The Liberty Fund will support ... identity; Protecting the rights of immigrants; Increasing health insurance enrollment to ensure...

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Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

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01/06/2017

... it came to tobacco. Fewer than twenty developing countries in the world had even one strong tobacco control policy in place. The tobacco industry was beginning an aggressive ... advocates for tobacco control...

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds that Repealing Obamacare Could Cost 3 Million Jobs

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01/06/2017

... negative economic impacts that would extend far beyond the health care industry. The report was released Thursday by the ... -- and that Congress won't put a replacement plan in place. If that happens, it...

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Century Foundation Fellow: Will Trump’s ACA Order Reduce Burden or Shift It to Patients?

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01/25/2017

... Trump’s ACA Order Reduce Burden or Shift It to Patients? In an executive order signed on his first day in office, President Trump stated his support for a “prompt ... lower deductibles for Americans, or...

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Phil TV This Week March 24

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03/24/2017

... Foundations are Taking a Stand — or Not — on the GOP Health Plan Foundations are Finding Different Paths to ...

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NYSHealth Funding Opportunity Now Open: Spreading OpenNotes in New York State

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04/24/2017

NYSHealth Funding Opportunity Now Open: Spreading OpenNotes in New York State The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) is pleased to launch a Request for Proposals (RFP) to support hospitals in...

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Policy Uncertainty over Affordable Care Act Means Less Time for Oversight of Premium Hikes, Commonwealth Fund Says

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05/23/2017

... administration has said it will ask for a 90-day delay in deciding whether to continue to fund the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies to defray health plan cost-sharing for low-income enrollees (known as ... for...

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Commonwealth Fund: What Might a Medicaid Work Requirement Mean?

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05/31/2017

... of its Medicaid policy proposals, including the idea in the just-released 2018 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget proposal, and as part ... it would incorporate the work requirement...

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Aging

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Commonwealth Fund: Why and How to Avoid High-Risk Pools for Americans with Preexisting Conditions

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06/05/2017

... for Americans with Preexisting Conditions The American Health Care Act (AHCA)—the U.S. House of Representatives’ ... for people with preexisting conditions who have lapses in their coverage. In...

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CareConnect Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market

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08/28/2017

... Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market CareConnect, the health insurance company started by Northwell Health , has ... it can be for new companies to compete with legacy players in the...

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