Grantee Name
Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, Inc., doing business as New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage
Funding Area
Expanding Health Care Coverage
Publication Date
June 2011
Grant Amount
$107,477
Grant Date:
December 1, 2007 – March 31, 2010
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Immigrants in New York, including those living here lawfully, are three times less likely to have health insurance than their American-born counterparts.
In response to this issue, New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage, a program of the Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York (CIDNY), in partnership with the New York Immigration Coalition, aimed to study strategies that would improve immigrants’ access to insurance. CIDNY undertook several activities to identify barriers to coverage and to identify ways for public and private programs to enroll non-citizens.
This project was part of a larger NYHealth Coverage Consortium that funded 10 grants to seven universities, policy institutes, and community agencies across the State to support projects that could inform State health reform efforts, offer ways to streamline enrollment in public programs, significantly reduce costs and improve quality, and test ideas for expanding coverage among small employers, sole proprietors, and self-employed people.