Healthcare Education

1199SEIU and GNYHA Commend New York’s Leaders for Protecting Healthcare in the State Budget

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1199SEIU/GNYHA Commend Governor Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie & Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins for Protecting Healthcare in Budget The Greater New York Hospital Association (“GNYHA”) and 1199SEIU [...]

Rochester First: Federal Cuts in NY: Citizens Voice Concerns in Batavia

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14 counties gathered Tuesday in Batavia to discuss the potential effects of proposed federal funding cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, education, and veteran services. A panel of leaders and community stakeholders [...]

Watch: Healthcare Education Project on The Public Good Podcast

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As of February 2024, around 42% of New Yorkers across the state are enrolled in a Medicaid or Essential Plan. While some funding is state tax dollars, impending threats of [...]

Yonkers Times: More Than One Thousand Rally in Mt. Kisco to Oppose Cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and Essential Services

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On Saturday, April 5, at 10 a.m., over a thousand community members and unionists rallied at the Mt. Kisco train station, to protest proposed cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and [...]

Long Island Herald: Medicaid Cuts Threaten Healthcare Access

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Rep. Laura Gillen, center, was joined by Cynthia Ngombe, left, Assemblywoman Michaelle Solages, healthcare worker Claire Leon, and Nate Jackson, to discuss Medicaid funding. Healthcare Education Project advocate Cynthia Ngombe [...]

Queens Chronicle: Women’s Health Symposium at York

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State Sen. Leroy Comrie partners with Healthcare Education Project, York College, and Jamaica Hospital Medical Center for the ninth annual Women’s Health Symposium at York College in Jamaica, Saturday, March 29, [...]

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Holds Medicaid Teach-In With New York’s Largest Healthcare Union, Urging Them to Fight for Essential Care

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In Moderated Conversation, Warns of Threats to Hospitals and Nursing Homes as Part of Massive Medicaid Cuts in Budget Resolution Monday, March 17, New York, NY – At the headquarters [...]

George Gresham: Medicaid Cuts Will Harm Millions

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It is hard to imagine a more appalling trade: sacrificing the health of working class and low-income families so that the ultra-rich can grow even richer. But this is precisely [...]

1199 and GNYHA Respond to the House Budget Resolution to Slash Medicaid and Medicare

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Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee proposed a budget resolution that would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid and Medicare, the public health insurance programs that [...]

Health Care Advocates Across the Nation Tell Elected Officials: “Hands Off Medicaid”

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On January 8, Healthcare Education Project, 1199SEIU, faith leaders, community members and health care advocates joined Protect Our Care for “Hands off Medicaid” rallies to tell Congress that Medicaid cuts must be off the table as officials negotiate a forthcoming budget reconciliation package.