Health Care

A breakdown of New York City’s new ‘universal health care’ plan

It’s an effort to get the uninsured to take advantage of existing programs.

By REBECCA C. LEWIS

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Albany’s checklist of health care bills

From codifying Roe v. Wade to legalizing recreational marijuana.

By REBECCA C. LEWIS

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Has single-payer health care’s time finally come?

Democrats are coming out of the woodwork to back the New York Health Act.

By REBECCA C. LEWIS

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Officials at City & State's Health and Wellness summit discussed issues including lead poisoning, legalized marijuana and Lyme disease.

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How state Senate control will alter health policy

From single-payer to marijuana, top senators on the health committee discuss their top priorities.

By JORDAN LAIRD, JON LENTZ

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Facing a doctor shortage, NYC looks to Grenada

The city's struggling public hospitals have a partnership with a controversial med school in the Caribbean.

By JEFF COLTIN

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A medical marijuana cultivator sorts through the male and female plants.

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If New York legalizes pot, what happens to its medical marijuana program?

The two markets would likely coexist, but with inconsistencies.

By REBECCA C. LEWIS

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Will the CVS-Aetna merger expand – or limit – health care in New York?

The approved deal is at the center of a debate over the role of corporations in providing health care.

By CHRISTINA SAINT LOUIS

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Both houses of Congress have advanced opioid legislation

Lawmakers support New York's approach to the drug crisis.

By JORDAN LAIRD

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Making New York City a primary care town

Visits to primary care providers are down. What would New York policymakers do to revitalize primary health care?

By ANNIE MCDONOUGH

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The 30th Street Men's Shelter in the former Bellevue Hospital building

Health Care

Bellevue homeless shelter’s neglected water tank

"Thats crazy," Speaker Johnson says after introducing new water tank laws.

By FRANK G. RUNYEON

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