by Alyson Martin The lowest wage earning city freelancers will likely find relief with their health insurance under the healthcare bill signed by President Barack Obama Tuesday, but the middle-class freelancers will still struggle. The [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
by Jennifer Brookland As hard-fought health insurance legislation comes across President Obama’s desk, the economic problems of the Bronx are apparent in the places people get their insurance. One in five people in the Bronx [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
by Matthew Huisman Carl Hum, president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, said the health care bill will help expand the coverage offered to the workforce and emphasized that a healthy workforce is essential for [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
by Danielle Bengsch Republicans willing to speak about the bill’s passage were either unhappy or outraged. Leon Nadrowski is a surgeon, internist and speaker for the Republicans in Brooklyn. He is also local leader of the [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
by Mary Plummer Late in the afternoon Monday, New York State Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, Democrat – 50th District, hadn’t heard a word from his constituents on the passage of yesterday’s healthcare legislation. Speaking from Albany, he [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
by Matthew Huisman Longtime community activist Charles Barron, who has represented the 42nd district of Brownsville and Canarsie as well as parts of East New York and Flatbush for nine years, said the new health [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
by Danielle Bengsch The reaction among a sampling of Brooklyn pharmacists to the bill’s passage ranges skepticism to confusion about what its impact will be. “We just don’t know yet what is going to happen,” [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
by Sarah Butrymowicz It’s too soon to say how nursing homes in the Bronx – and all over the country – will feel the impact of the health care bill, but there are some causes [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
by K. S. Nikhil Kumar A Brooklyn doctor of 25 years believes that the health care reform legislation is not the right direction to be moving in because it puts more pressure on professionals like [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
by Selamawit Gebrekidan At the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx there is concern that the new bill will cut in half the annual funds the hospital had received from the government for low-income patient [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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