Healthy New York has emerged as a leading state program designed to encourage small businesses to purchase coverage for their employees and dependents. As of December 2004, the program covered 76,704 individuals. The program integrates a reinsurance mechanism with a new HMO product to offer a low-cost product to small businesses that employ low-wage workers, the self-employed, and individuals who have been uninsured for more than one year. In a new SCI "Profile in Coverage", Governor George E. Pataki (R) and Insurance Superintendent Gregory V. Serio answer questions about the program.
For more information on coverage programs in New York, please visit SCI's state reports database.
