Medicaid Matters New York joins countless organizations and individuals to call on the Governor and the Legislature to provide affordable coverage options for the almost half a million New Yorkers who will lose coverage July 1st due to Federal cuts. Medicaid Matters...
The annual Medicaid Budget Consumer Checklist is here! This budget advocacy tool is meant to reminder policymakers of the budget issues of importance to Medicaid consumers. Download the checklist here.
The Medicaid Matters Coordinator testified at the joint legislative hearing on the Governor's proposed 2026-2027 state budget. Read the testimony below and download the PDF here. Find the archived video of her testimony at the hearing here. Our budget testimony has...
A jointly-hosted webinar took place January 8th to highlight the impacts of recent federal changes on immigrants' health insurance coverage. Medicaid Matters New York, Health Care for All New York, Community Service Society of New York, Make the Road New York, and the...
Medicaid Matters New York has published its 2026 Health Justice Agenda. Find it below and download the PDF at this link. The federal budget reconciliation bill enacted in July 2025 – H.R.1 – will have a devastating impact on state budgets, including here in New...
Medicaid Matters New York has published a new one-pager focused on the impact that HR.1 will have on New Yorkers and Medicaid. Click here to download.
Medicaid – the public health insurance program providing coverage to people with low income and people with disabilities – was signed into federal law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 30, 1965. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed it into state law the...
A budget is a moral document, creating the framework for how a government will provide public services. H.R. 1, which Republican leaders have dubbed “beautiful,” is anything but beautiful for people with low income and people with disabilities who need health...
Medicaid matters to New Yorkers across the entire state. Find some of them in a new printable flier here.
Medicaid Matters New York joined providers, insurance reps, labor leaders, other advocacy groups, and others in commenting on the U.S. House approval of the federal budget reconciliation bill that would decimate the Medicaid program and other health care programs. For...