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Q&A: MetroPlusHealth executive on how to broaden insurance access in light of Hochul's executive budget proposals

The Inaugural Manhattan Power List honored the most influential men and women in Manhattan

Hundreds of supporters cheered while the honorees were celebrated at the 2023 Power List of Manhattan.

Planning for the end of pandemic-era Medicaid coverage

Roughly 100,000 New Yorkers would be newly uninsured, according to preliminary estimates.

MetroPlusHealth Names Erin M. Drinkwater New Chief of Government Relations & Strategic Partnerships

/PRNewswire/ -- MetroPlusHealth, New York City's high-quality, affordable health plan, announced the appointment of Erin M. Drinkwater as its first Chief of...

City Cancels Bronx Homeless Shelter Project that Faced Fierce Community Opposition

The shelter on White Plains Road was to be run by Westhab, in a building owned by David Levitan, once identified by the city as one of its "worst landlords."

Riverdale Residents Protest Homeless Shelter at Yonkers Border

Riverdale residents rallied in protest to a shelter at the Yonkers border.

The Politics of Affliction | City Journal

eye on the news The Politics of Affliction New York City’s progressive leaders apparently believe that it is their mission to disrupt the comfort of their constituents. New York Public safety There was no shortage of suffering in New York in 2020. With the Covid-19 pandemic, economic hardship, rioting, and street violence, there’s been plenty of misery to go around. But according to some prominent elected officials and bureaucrats, the fun’s only getting started. They seem to see it as part of their job—really, their duty—to make sure that New Yorkers feel the pain. At a Brooklyn rally in early June, commemorating the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams gave an impassioned speech. Before a crowd of thousands of mourners—who gathered en masse despite the risk of exposure to Covid and the city’s state of emergency forbidding public assembly—Williams denounced critics of the protesters. “The people who have been affected the most have been uncomfortable for 500 years!” he thundered. “If one person is comfortable, we all should be comfortable. But if one person isn’t, we all shouldn’t rest.” As a prescription for society, this standard of comfort would be hard to universalize. But Williams elaborated: “We must always, always comfort the afflicted. But in order to get justice, we must afflict the comfortable.”