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Affordable coverage for immigrants in NYS
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...
A Vision for NY Medicaid in 2026
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...
How Federal Cuts Will Impact New York
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 Turns 60!
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...
Medicaid Matters New York Condemns Passage of Rushed, Inhumane Federal Budget Reconciliation Bill
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 stories from across the NYS
Medicaid matters to New Yorkers across the entire state. Find some of them in a new printable flier here. More stories from April, 2025 can be foud here.