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Links to recent and relvant publications follow.
- After the American Rescue Plan: Trick or Treat?Oct. 29, 2021 | Peter Newell
As New York seeks to get out from under the COVID-19 virus and its variants, what further initiatives would help reach New Yorker…
- Extra Coverage Help Under the American Rescue Plan for New Yorkers Who Lost Jobs and Job-Based InsuranceAug. 4, 2021 | Peter Newell
A HealthWatch brief examining the ways that the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act will help consumers afford premiums on lost employe…
- Can You Provide Pre-existing Condition Protections Without the ACA? It’s Not So EasyOct. 29, 2020 | Peter Newell
Peter Newell, director of UHF’s Health Insurance Project, highlights the numerous ways ACA provisions protect consumers with pre-…
