Is Pandemic a Game Changer for Single Payer Bill? PUBLISHED 5:27 AM ET Mar. 09, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:27 AM EST Mar. 09, 2021
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For years, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried has introduced a bill creating a single-payer health care system in New York. Gottfried and Sen. Gustavo Rivera on Monday reintroduced the measure on Monday.
And this year, with a pandemic claiming tens of thousands of lives in New York and exposing new cracks in the health care system, is different, advocates for the measure said.
“New Yorkers elected a Democratic super-majority in the middle of a pandemic as a mandate to enact bold transformational changes, including the New York Health Act,” said Ursula Rozum, the co-director of the Campaign for NY Health. “This bill must be central to a just and equitable recovery from this pandemic and brought to a vote this year.”
The conversation with Deloitte on Monday was part of a meeting of the Florida Senate Select Committee on Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
Deloitte leaders said they re sympathetic to the challenges Floridians have and are still facing with unemployment during this pandemic.
When questioned by state legislators, Deloitte officials said the system was working well when it first launched in 2013 and was stress-tested to handle hurricanes and a financial crisis. But the pandemic caused a drastic spike in demand.
For almost a year, Spectrum News has been reporting extensively on the issues with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity s CONNECT system, including delayed benefits and issues accessing the site.
UPDATED 1:35 PM ET Mar. 09, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:53 AM ET Mar. 09, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:53 AM EST Mar. 09, 2021
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Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul in a statement on Tuesday said she trusts the investigation being overseen by former federal prosecutor Joon Kim and employment attorney Anne Clark into allegations facing Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior. With yesterday’s announcement launching the independent investigation led by Joon H. Kim and Anne L. Clark, I am confident everyone’s voice will be heard and taken seriously, Hochul said. I trust the inquiry to be completed as thoroughly and expeditiously as possible. New Yorkers should be confident that through this process they will soon learn the facts.