• ACCESS AND FINANCING OF HEALTH CARE: Support of measures to maintain or expand access to a basic level of health care that is equitable, efficient, and economical, such as expansion of eligibility for the Child Health Plus program, support of measures to make prescription drugs affordable, including a measure that would prohibit insurance companies from providing lesser reimbursement for more expensive drugs and a measure to establish a prescription drug discount program,, support for permanent funding of school based health services, and opposition to cuts proposed to the Medicaid program;
  
  
• MENTAL HEALTH PARITY: Commercial insurance is required to cover mental health services.  The League supports coverage fo such services by the state funded Child Health Plus and Family Health Plus programs.
  

• DISEASE PREVENTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH PROMOTION: Support for a public health measure to curtail sale of flavored cigarettes, eliminate use of tanning beds by people under 19 years of age, and lead paint removal programs;
  
  
• PERSONAL HEALTH DECISION MAKING:  Support of the Family Health Care Decisions Act, which would establish procedures for family members, surrogates and others to make treatment decisions on behalf of patients unable to decide about treatment for themselves.

• New! LWVNY Testimony for 2012-2013 Health-Medicaid Budget Hearing (2/15/2012)
  
  
• Testimony Before NYS Assembly Standing Committee on Insurance (6/8/2009)
  
  
• Healthcare/Medicaid Budget Testimony (2/2/2009)
  
  
• Testimony for Legislative Public Hearings on Health/Medicaid 2008 - 09 Executive Budget Proposal (2/6/2008)

ACCESS AND FINANCE

• Memo in Support of S5849/A8514 Concerning Establishment of NY Health Benefit Exchanges (6/24/2011)

• Memo in Opposition to A7841 Prohibiting State Funding for Organizations Which Perform Abortions (6/2/2011)
  
  
• S.5000-S.5000/Duane--Tier IV Prescription Drugs (5/19/2009)
  
  
• Memo in Support of A.1718 Nursing Home Staffing Levels (5/12/2009)
  
  
• Memorandum in Support of A.5694/Espaillat—Funding for School Based Health Services (3/3/2009)
  This would make funding for school based health services permanent
  
  
  • A.121/Sampson—Creating a Prescription Drug Discount Program (2/24/2009)
    
  • A.734/Gottfried—Enhance the Availability of Child Health Plus  (2/3/2009)

DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION

• Memorandum in Support of A9110 Concerning the Use of Ultra Violet Radiation Devices by Persons Under 18 years of Age (6/22/2010) 
  Prohibition of use of tanning beds.

• S.1002/Perkins—Primary Prevention of Lead Poisoning  (3/10/2009)

• Memorandum in Support of S.248/Fuschillo—Prohibiting Sale of Flavored Cigarettes (6/9/2009)

•  Memorandum in Support of  A.777/Paulin--Prohibiting the Sale of Flavored Cigarettes (2/10/2009)

• Memo in Support S.6350 Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention and Safe Housing Act (4/9/2008)

PERSONAL HEALTH DECISION MAKING

• NEW! Memo in Support of A8414 Concerning Physician Information on Dept of Health’s Website (3/13/2012)
  
  
• Memo in Support A6112 on Reproductive Health Act (6/2/2011)
  
  
• Memorandum in Support  S.3164Duane--Family Health Care Decisions Act  (5/19/2009)
  
  
• Memo in Support of A.7729 (5/12/2009)
  Medical Decision-Making    

RESTRICTING TANNING BED USE BY PERSONS UNDER 18

•  Memo in Support S2917 (1/30/2012)
  Restricting Tanning bed use by persons under 18
• Memorandum in Support of S2917 Restricting Tanning Bed Use by Person Under 18 (6/15/2011
• Memo in Support A.1074 Restricting Tanning Bed Use by Persons Under 18 (6/1/2011)

• Letter to  LWVUS President Mary Wilson (7/6/2009)

• Letter to Governor Paterson Urging Him to Sign into Law the Childhood Lead Poisoning Act (9/23/2008)

• View the League health care positions and a history of actions taken under them.
  
  
• View the LWVUS position on health care and action taken under it.

• Rural Health Care: Where the Needs Are Great and the Resources Are Few (2009)
  A good discussion of the particular health care challenges facing individuals living in rural areas, prepared by the LWVUS.  

• Healthcare-What Will Happen To Your Healthcare When You Pull the Lever?
  As a community service to educate voters for the upcoming Presidential election, the League of Women Voters of NYS, along with the Capital Region Local Leagues, presented a pre-election program on October 25th, that provided voters with a thorough, unbiased analysis of both major candidates' proposals that included a perspective from a major area health service provider, Seton Health, an affiliate Ascension Health, the largest U.S. nonprofit health system, on the impact of both proposals on health care delivery.
  
  
• Healthcare Forum Webcasts October 2008 (10/29/2008)
  
  
• Aging in the Community? The Future of Long Term Healthcare
  Panel Discussion Webcasts Spring 2009. League of Women Voters of NYS & The Capital Region Local Leagues