{"id":439445,"date":"2025-12-11T05:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439445\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:59:35","slug":"state-warns-950000-people-in-nyc-will-lose-health-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439445\/","title":{"rendered":"State warns 950,000 people in NYC will lose health coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) —<\/strong> Nearly 1 million New Yorkers are expected to lose health coverage as a result of President Donald Trump\u2019s federal budget, a shift that will strain the city\u2019s struggling public hospital system.<\/p>\n

Under eligibility changes enacted as part of Trump\u2019s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, an estimated 800,000 New York City residents are expected to lose Medicaid coverage, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in a report Wednesday. An additional 150,000 residents will likely lose coverage from the state\u2019s Essential Plan, which provides health care to low-income New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

The growth in the number of uninsured New Yorkers will have a disproportionate impact on Health and Hospitals, the city\u2019s system of 11 publicly run hospitals, DiNapoli said in the report.<\/p>\n

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An FDNY ambulance is seen in Woodside, Queens.<\/p>\n

Photo credit Kyle Mazza \/ SOPA Images\/Sipa USA<\/p>\n

Federal cuts and changes to Medicaid eligibility \u201cwill hurt the agency\u2019s bottom line, even as a growing uninsured population is likely to push more patients into its facilities,\u201d DiNapoli said. Any increase to the uninsured rate \u201cwill create a financial burden for H+H since its primary mission is to provide care regardless of a patient\u2019s ability to pay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

H+H, the largest public hospital system in the US, already serves a significant population of the city\u2019s Medicaid and uninsured patients, including many undocumented immigrants. Last year, Medicare and Medicaid patients made up 84% of patient discharges at H+H hospitals, and 72% of the system\u2019s revenue came from Medicaid or the Essential Plan.<\/p>\n

The H+H system has long struggled to stabilize its finances. Since 2016, it\u2019s been operating on a savings plan that depends heavily on the city\u2019s ability to obtain supplemental federal Medicaid payments. Those payments are volatile because they have to be approved by the state and federal government, and can be \u201cinconsistent and often delayed,\u201d DiNapoli said.<\/p>\n

\u201cH+H will likely need to revisit its cost-cutting plans that could lead to some difficult choices by consolidating and\/or eliminating services,\u201d DiNapoli said.<\/p>\n

More stories like this are available on <\/strong>bloomberg.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) — Nearly 1 million New Yorkers are expected to lose health coverage as a result…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":439446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-439445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115699409605100137","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}