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Health Care
- Sponsored the Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage: Provides more than 300,000 New York senior citizens with
savings averaging $1700 per year in prescription drugs.
- Expanded
the New York Children's Health Insurance Program,
in 2008, to the best levels in the United States, obtained the insurance coverage for prevention, early detection and treatment
of breast and cervical cancer, osteoporosis and other women’s
health needs.
- Addressing
the critical shortage of health care workers while financially
strengthening hospitals, nursing homes and other health care
facilities.
- Sparked the strengthening of long
term care with Nursing Home, Assisted living and home care
initiatives.
- Continued the focus on patient
centered care in New York; the Patient Safety Act of 2008
restores the trust factor to the doctor-patient setting. Steps
to avoid the scandal of 2007 of improper needle procedures
- Created
Family Health Plus and Healthy NY to help working families get
health insurance.
- Patient’s
Bill of Rights: protecting
the interests of patients as well as provider physicians.
- Wrote law giving
Managed Care patients the right to an independent external appeal
of HMO denials of medically necessary treatment (External Review).
- Wrote
the Physicians’ Profile law, which improves patient access to
information about health care providers, in order to ensure
quality care. The law requires the profiling of doctors, hospitals
and health care plans, creates a patient safety center with its
primary goal to reduce medical errors, and closes existing
loopholes in the reporting of practitioner misconduct. Created the
Physician Profile web site and toll-free information number.
- Other laws Senator Hannon has sponsored include:
- GIVING
PARENTS RIGHTS FOR THEIR INCAPACITATED CHILDREN
- RESEARCHING
SIDS: promote
advances in the research and prevention of Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome (SIDS)
- CURBING YOUTH ACCESS TO TOBACCO: restricted storage
in retail store of cigarettes and requiring minimum pack
size to deter
casual sales.
- Establishing Organ & Tissue Registry in law
and Recognition of Organ Donors, along with dedicated
license Plate ("Life...Pass it On")
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