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kevindong | 3 years ago

From the summary of the bill:

> Private insurance that duplicates benefits offered under New York Health could not be offered to New York residents.

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My interpretation of that is that private insurance (which includes employer-based insurance) would be banned.

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akimball|3 years ago

That's an incorrect interpretation. Private insurance would be restricted to cover things not already covered by the public insurance.

kevindong|3 years ago

> The benefits will include comprehensive outpatient and inpatient medical care, long-term care, primary and preventive care, prescription drugs, laboratory tests, rehabilitative, dental, vision, hearing, etc. all benefits required by current state insurance law or provided by the state public employee package, Family Health Plus, Child Health Plus, Medicare, or Medicaid, and others added by the plan.

I'm struggling to understand what is not covered beyond that.