The New York Health Act would guarantee healthcare for every New Yorker — while saving families, counties, cities, schools, and taxpayers billions of dollars.
Right now, New Yorkers pay some of the highest healthcare costs in America.
Not just through premiums and copays.
But through rising property taxes, county budgets, school district costs, municipal employee benefits, and hidden healthcare costs baked into everyday life.
The New York Health Act changes that.
By replacing our wasteful, fragmented healthcare system with one streamlined public system, New York can:
Lower healthcare costs for over 92% of New Yorkers
Eliminate billions in administrative waste
Reduce pressure on local property taxes
Save counties and municipalities billions
Free up funding for schools, infrastructure, housing, transit, and public services
This isn’t just healthcare reform. It’s economic relief for working class New Yorkers.
Right now, New Yorkers pay some of the highest healthcare costs in America.
Most people think healthcare costs only show up in insurance premiums or medical bills.
But New Yorkers are paying for healthcare everywhere:
Through paycheck deductions
Through property taxes
Through school district budgets
Through county Medicaid costs
Through municipal employee benefits
Through rising costs for local businesses passed on to consumers
Through higher prices caused by insurance bureaucracy and administrative waste
We don’t have one healthcare system.
We have dozens of overlapping systems — all billing each other, all adding costs, all wasting money.
And working people are stuck paying for it.
New York spends more per person on healthcare than any state in America
Administrative waste consumes roughly 20–25% of healthcare spending
About 40% of New Yorkers report delaying or avoiding care because of cost
The Hidden Healthcare Tax:
Your property taxes help pay for our broken healthcare system.
New York counties contribute to the Medicaid County Share, a local funding partnership that helps provide healthcare coverage to seniors, people with disabilities, children, pregnant people, and low-income New Yorkers. This funding ensures that millions of vulnerable residents can access essential medical care they might otherwise go without. Supporting healthcare for those most in need reflects New York’s commitment to protecting public health, strengthening communities, and treating every resident with dignity and compassion. The Medicaid County Share is funded through local taxes.
That means our local governments spend billions every year on healthcare costs they do not control.
Funding those costs come directly from:
Property taxes
Local sales taxes
County budgets
Public employee benefit costs
In many counties, Medicaid costs consume massive portions of local tax revenue — crowding out investments in roads, schools, parks, libraries, emergency services, housing, and public programs.
New Yorkers are already paying for healthcare through local taxes.
They’re just not getting affordable healthcare in return.
New Yorkers would get more and spend less with the New York Health Act.
The New York Health Act replaces our fragmented insurance system with one streamlined public healthcare plan covering every New Yorker.
That means:
No premiums
No deductibles
No copays
No insurance networks
No surprise bills
But it also means something bigger:
Instead of thousands of insurance plans, billing systems, administrators, and middlemen driving up costs, New York can cut out the administrative waste and use the purchasing power of 20 million people to lower costs across the system.
The result:
Less bureaucracy
Lower administrative costs
Lower drug prices
Simpler care
Better negotiating power
More money staying in our communities
RAND estimated the New York Health Act could save roughly $80 billion over 10 years under base-case assumptions
The plan is projected to reduce overall healthcare spending over time while expanding coverage to everyone
Over 92% of New Yorkers are projected to spend less on healthcare than they do now
What if billions stayed in our communities instead of going to insurance companies?
NYC alone would save $13.6 billion each year — eliminating their $12.6 billion budget deficit.
It gives counties, municipalities, and school districts financial breathing room.
Instead of watching more and more local budgets disappear into healthcare costs every year, communities could reinvest those dollars into what people actually need.
That could mean:
Lower property taxes
Better funded schools
More transit investment
Improved parks and libraries
Expanded housing programs
Better emergency services
Stronger local economies
Healthcare savings become community investment.
What could your community do with healthcare savings?
Hire teachers?
Repair roads?
School after-care?
Build parks?
Modernize transit?
Cut property taxes?
It’s time to make healthcare work for New Yorkers.
The New York Health Act is more than a healthcare bill.
It’s an affordability bill.
A tax relief bill.
And an investment in every community across New York State.
New Yorkers deserve a healthcare system that prioritizes their health over profits — and we are leading that fight.
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