Bill Title: Enacts the New York State Health Plan, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents: provides for administrative structure of the plan, including its status as a public benefit corporation; provides for powers and duties of the governing board, the scope of benefits, payment mechanisms and cost controls; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan; establishes a mechanism to collect plan premium payments (an 8% employer premium and a 2% employee payroll premium, which may be paid by an employer, plus a 9% premium payment on self-employment income); establishes a temporary commission on implementation of the plan and makes a $500,000 appropriation therefor; and directs the superintendent of insurance to examine the premium rate structure for insurance underwritten in the state and to identify that portion of premiums which are attributable to health care expenditures due to implementation of the plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S02370 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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