NYC to guarantee health care for all, even undocumented
Mayor de Blasio: $100 million cost 'will save money in the long run'
The bold plan will cost the city taxpayers $100 million a year, but Mayor Bill de Blasio says “multiple times that amount” would be spent in the future without his new plan. In a surprise announcement, the mayor says the city will guarantee health care to every resident, regardless of their ability to pay or their immigration status.
The new program, called NYC Care, will cover roughly the 600,000 city residents without insurance, roughly half of whom are undocumented immigrants.
The program will save the city money down the road, the mayor said at a press conference at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx on Tuesday.