Jimenez and Long on uninsured estimates and HR1 impact
Long estimates about 700,000 New Yorkers are uninsured and explains that EP5 ended entirely on July 1, so the 60% figure reflects how many found another plan. He says Medicaid changes will have a similar but different flavor.
Do you know the numbers?
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene recently had an estimate that at the full effects of HR1, there would be close to 900,000 people that might become uninsured.
But we know, as Dr.
Long was talking about, that many of those folks will find other pathways to connect to health insurance.
And we're certainly going to do everything we can to connect people before they...
Yeah, as you said, 60% is likely to be insured in another way.
What is what your experience has been this summer that potentially leaves 40% of almost a million people potentially needing New York City Cares to be able to get some support?
Actually, yeah, let me, to back up for a second, if you'll give me just a minute, I'll try to be as concise as I can with the numbers.
The Department of Health collects the data, so we're not the arbiter of that data.
But for the purpose of this hearing, let's ballpark it.
I think it's 700,000 or so of people in New York City are uninsured.
So a portion of them are part of the NYC Care Program.
And when EP5 went away, EP5 went away in totality.
So everybody that had EP5 on June 30th did not have EP5 on July 1.
So in that scenario, the 60% is of those that lost everything, how many were able to find a different insurance plan?
So it's a related question.
To me, it's more of how we were able to engage with them to help them to find another plan that they were eligible for.