On Tuesday, the New York State Assembly is scheduled to vote on Assembly Bill A4738
— the so-called New York Health Plan — a bill that, if signed into law,
would make the Empire State the first in the nation to give its
residents single-payer health care.
Just as it did in 2015 and 2016, the measure is expected to easily pass the assembly by
an overwhelming majority. And just as it did for the past two years,
the bill has a difficult road ahead of it in the New York State Senate.
But
this year, the bill has already won a crucial victory: For the first
time ever, the move to bring single-payer to the state of New York has
been cosponsored by every single member of the Independent Democratic Caucus, a controversial gang of Democrats
in the New York State Senate that does not caucus with their party.
This faction, along with a lone Democrat that caucuses with New York's GOP,
has helped Republicans in New York's State Senate to thwart Democratic
lawmakers' efforts in the past, despite the party's hair-thin majority
in the state senate.
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Source: Mic.com (via The Empire Report)
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