The New York Health Act proposes single-payer healthcare which would do away with the private insurance companies.

About 10 years ago, when she was 44, Eve Magdalengoitia had a hunch that something was wrong. She was experiencing concerning symptoms of the lady sort, and her doctor said it's probably nothing, but let's get you an MRI to be sure. At the time, she was working as a consultant from her home base in Poughkeepsie, writing grants and fundraising for nonprofits; her husband was a self-employed artist. They didn't have health insurance. The expense of an MRI (ballpark $2,600) was so daunting that Magdalengoitia convinced herself that her symptoms were nothing to worry about. She was young and healthy, wasn't she?

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