Joint Legislative Public Hearings on 2025-2026 Executive Budget Proposal
The health law team is dedicated to ensuring access to quality, affordable health coverage for all New Yorkers. We respectfully request the following:
- We ask the legislature to include an additional $1.5 million in funding for Community Health Advocates, and we request that the final budget includes $7 m for CHA.
- We support the recommendations of the Health Care for All New York and Medicaid Matters New York coalitions, including
- Protect and Improve Health Insurance Coverage
- Regulate Hospitals to Protect New Yorkers from Medical Debt
- Allocate Some Managed Care Organization (MCO) Tax Revenue to Promote Health Care Affordability for New Yorkers
- Reduce the Role of Managed Care in Essential Programs and Implement Reform in Managed Care Programs
- We ask the legislature to take steps to achieving Pay Parity for Civil Legal Services nonprofit providers in New York State, including by approving in this year’s one house and final budgets the increase to JCLS funding $150 million, and by including $80M total for the Interest on Lawyers Account (IOLA) Fund to support its grantees and ensure that budget language designates IOLA as a “fiduciary fund.”
- We ask the legislature and the Executive to reaffirm New York’s commitment to transgender and nonbinary New Yorkers, including medically necessary, gender affirming care—creating a fund to back medically necessary care.
- We ask the legislature and the Executive to address nonprofit contracting in New York State.
A PDF version of our testimony is available for your convenience.
