CM Restler on essential plan and Medicaid enrollment strategies
Martin details the Board of Health resolution, the $500K enrollment campaign, and NYC Care as a safety net option. On Medicaid, he describes 26 new FTEs as a floor, with navigators, volunteers, and CBOs through Access Health building additional capacity.
Let's talk one at a time.
So first, with the essential plan, your data is exactly right.
230-Something thousand individuals are going to end up losing coverage.
So what do we do about it?
So first, we pulled the Board of Health together just about two weeks ago to pass a resolution that calls this what it is.
Number one, these are attacks on public health insurance by the federal government.
Number two, it commits us to creating a plan to address these coverage loss scenarios, and we immediately put money behind it.
We launched a campaign to help individuals who may lose their central plan,
help them enroll in other coverage options, including NYC Care, which is another type of coverage, as you know, safety net of the safety net type of coverage options.
But third, helping these individuals also recognize that they can always come to us.
We have 11 clinics across the city, and folks can come to us to get their care.
With regard to Medicaid, yeah, you know, so we have 40.
26 new FTEs that are going to be coming in to help us do this work.
That's the baseline.
That's sort of a floor.
On top of that, we can build in navigators and people who are looking for either volunteer work or looking to do workforce development.
And we can add many, many, many more layers on top of that.
And we have a huge community of community-based organizations as part of the Access Health program.
So the bottom line is this is us as a health department putting our hand up and saying we are committed to this fight.
We're going to work with other organizations.
We're going to work with other agencies.
And we're going to work to get this done on behalf of New Yorkers.