Thursday, May 9, 2019

de Blasio initiates pilot health insurance coverage plan with glossy card

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NY Daily News

Mayor de Blasio unveiled the design for the city’s new health care card on Tuesday — even though uninsured New Yorkers won’t be able to use it for months.

Launching Aug. 1 in the Bronx, the NYC Care program is part of an effort to provide either insurance or health services to roughly 600,000 New Yorkers who are uninsured.

Half of them are undocumented immigrants who can’t be insured, and the rest either can’t afford health coverage through Affordable Care Act exchanges or have opted out of purchasing it.

Those roughly 300,000 New Yorkers who cannot be insured will be able to get an NYC Care card and membership that gives them access to a primary care doctor in the city’s Health + Hospitals network.

Undocumented immigrants already have guaranteed health care at the city’s public hospitals, but the new program is intended to help them better manage their health and avoid costly emergency room visits.

 The NYC Care card is expected to reach all five boroughs by the end of 2020 and cost $100 million a year when fully implemented, with about $25 million going toward Bronx memberships.
The city will also expand its MetroPlus program, the public hospital system’s health insurance program, as part of an overall effort to increase health care enrollment for the other 300,000 uninsured.

“We’re on track to guarantee health care for every single New Yorker,” de Blasio said in a statement. “Access to quality and affordable health care is one of the biggest burdens working people face. Now they won’t face it alone.”

Mayor Big Slow has made announcements like this and programs to help the low income citizens before and they have not been helpful nor have materialized. And his own and his administration's incompetence and prolifigate spending is now legend:

Ny Post

The idea here is to make it as user friendly as it possibly can be,” de Blasio said.

“We’re saying, come get this card, we’re going to assign you a doctor, we’re going to show you all the services you can get with this,” he added.

The mayor said his number crunches are still determining how much the plan will save in emergency room costs.

 He's not doing this to help people get health care, he's doing this to boost his national profile for his delusional presidential aspirations.

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dumbassio has about as much chance of gaining the dem nomination as a cricket has surviving in a tank of geckos. But he's willing to put us all on the hook for $100 million for this ludicrous program. Why should people slave away at jobs so they can get health insurance when it's soooo much easier to sit on your rear end and STILL get health insurance, as a reward for doing nothing? And why should we reward illegal criminal invaders for busting into our country, ignoring its laws, and getting the jackpot of FREE HEALTH CARE? This idiotic program will absolutely also draw every illegal and every deadbeat bum to NYC to get on this latest iteration of the gravy train of freebies. And our quality of life, with our city thus "enriched" by this infusion of scum, will plummet.

georgetheatheist said...

I said on a post before this - you reading this "ron"? - that there are now 10 gurneys of illegals in front of you, The Citizen, in the ER waiting to now see a doctor.

With this diBlasio bullshit there will be in the future 20 gurneys of illegals ahead of you to see the now-completed overworked, exhausted doctor. RIP my friend.

Communism is death by murder. Socialism is death by suicide.

Madicare 4 Y'All!

Anonymous said...

We, as taxpaying citizens of the city DumBlasio is screwing over, should be able to refuse to pay any percentage of tax that will go to fun health insurance for illegals. i certainly doin't want my hard earned money funding this program. i would rather you find a way to use my tax dollars appropriately by funding raises for our first responders and teachers than for this polished turd of a program.

Anonymous said...

I am not a Trump supporter-- but with each passing day these Dumocrats just keep putting more nails in their coffin with shit like this. At some point you wonder if they're actually working for Trump.

Anonymous said...

All five boroughs? BS - there are no public hospitals in Staten Island...

Anonymous said...

How do I renounce my citizenship? Free healthcare, no jury duty and As far as voting who cares?!? Plenty of useful idiots to keep voting for free shit for me.

Anonymous said...

DaBlossio probably has never been to Staten Island.

Anonymous said...

DaBlossio probably has never been to Staten Island.

Anonymous said...

Hell I can't afford my yearly deductible and copay's. I just have to pick and choose which ailments are worst than others. Why doesn't our Mayor make a insurance for that? Sick of the dam Democrats and the Republicans.

Anonymous said...

What Republicans dear? They are all commies in the city in case you ever paid attention to the name of the dominant party - the Democratic Communist Party

Anonymous said...

I thought Metro Plus WAS the city health plan?

Anonymous said...

So, NYC taxpayers are gonna foot the bill for everyone living in NYC who doesn't have health coverage. Do you need anymore proof than that the Democrats are INSANE!

Anonymous said...

Looks like a Medicaid/Food Stamp card to me. Do you know that illegal aliens don't get their photographs on the Food Stamp/Medicaid Card unless they request it?
This is to protect them. Who is protecting me from them?

JQ LLC said...

I think what's going on at the borders is cruel and inhumane, being that the migrants are trying to flee from oppressive corrupt governments. But this program is irresponsible. And there are a massive glut of citizens, even middle class, that are in need of affordable health care.

The immigration legalization process needs to be drastically overhauled and improved. Or maybe Trump's chickenhawks can send the military to Honduras, San Salvidor and Guatemala and overthrow those corrupt governments instead of Venezuela.

Just a layman's opinion

Gary W said...

JQ. I love ya man. But here you are bashing Trump but the same border policies have been in place for decades. But since the orange guy is the president the press decides to pay attention to it.

F the dems F the repubs and a big FU to Our asshole Mayor.

JQ LLC said...

@Gary

I am aware of it. Trump is just continuing Obama's cruel and detrimental immigration policy. Now it's going to get worse that he's cut off funding aid to those three nations.

Anonymous said...

JQ has no problem spending our money !

JQ LLC said...

That's right, it's my money too Anon

Anonymous said...

I know what you're thinking; where should DeBlase' put that card? I know what you're thinking!

Anonymous said...

Jr Crapie is a bit too liberal and biased for my liking !
Just saying....

Angry Queens Taxpayer said...

Deblasio getting booed in the link below, its both funny and interesting

1-Note how WNYC tapped the audio feed direct into the microphone mixer in an attempt to mask the voices of the people.

2-The woman reading the script (likely written my the mayors press secretary) says "New York needs a racial change" then corrects herself. These jackass white middle class hating racists cant even read their own scripts!!

Link:
https://trendingviews.co/video/trump-supporters-show-up-with-hilarious-message-for-ny-mayor-6729.html

JQ LLC said...

Anon re: biased

Fair enough. This was bound to happen. I hope you still tune in.

But don't call me jr. I'm an LLC damn it.