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New York health experts are preparing people for the health-care coverage open-enrollment period. Between 2010 and 2021, the number of New Yorkers without health insurance declined from almost 12% to a little more than 5%. As people ... more

During Mental Health Awareness Month, a New York organization is celebrating by helping people learn about mental health. The Center for the Independence of the Disabled New York will be holding a Wellness Fair on ... more

More New York seniors will be eligible for Medicare Savings Programs starting this year. New guidelines increase the amount of income seniors can have to be eligible for the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary or Qualified Individual Programs. Individuals ... more

Up to 15 million Americans are at risk of losing their health insurance coverage as a pandemic-era Medicaid rule expires on March 31, 2023. The rule, passed in 2020, allowed for automatic enrollment in Medicaid, ... more

In the last five years more than 50,000 New Yorkers have been sued for medical debt. Now thanks to a measure signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul, home liens and wage garnishment will not ... more

Early voting begins in New York this week, with in-person early voting starting on Saturday, October 29. Early voting has been a popular option with New Yorkers ever since it was introduced in 2019. That ... more

Daryl Marshall and his family got right to work after a violent storm damaged his barn in the Town of Richmond Thursday. "It blew the roof off the back shed and as you can see ... more

Many parents are apprehensive about their kids getting the vaccine because they feel it has not been studied long enough to know the real consequences. Some are even worried it may cause infertility in their ... more

A new poll released shows that 27% of United States parents will vaccinate their children who are ages 5-11 right away against COVID-19 when the vaccine is made available. The poll was taken by 1,519 ... more

As COVID cases have fallen, so have the chances of unvaccinated people contracting COVID-19. The CDC originally stated that a person was 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 when unvaccinated, as well as ... more

Of 105,000 COVID-19 deaths reported between June and September, 90,000 were unvaccinated people. The study, completed by the Kaiser Family Foundation, shows over half of the reported deaths were in September during the Delta spread ... more

The Kaiser Family Foundation has shared an interesting piece of data from a survey about COVID: 71% of Americans who remain unvaccinated say a booster is proof the vaccine doesn't work, while 80% of vaccinated ... more

Policymakers are hoping to amend Medicare to include dental, hearing, and vision for their recipients that opt to avoid the care because of the expensive out-of-pocket costs. A survey was given to beneficiaries of Medicare ... more

In a matter of weeks insurance companies across the United States will begin requiring copays for coronavirus hospitalizations and testing. This comes after 20 months of limits being placed on out-of-pocket expenses associated with a ... more

Of the institutions decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic, none felt it worse than nursing homes. The deadly virus swept through these facilities, killing hundreds of vulnerable seniors and causing nursing home staff to work overtime ... more

In February the Kaiser Family Foundation reported that the pandemic and economic recession that ensued had a negative impact on many people's mental health. They reported that around 40% of adults in the U.S. reported ... more

New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker defending his office's counting of the deaths in nursing homes across New York. The detailed report which was announced by Attorney General Letitia James led to a ... more