Launched in February 2005, the UNITE HERE-Healthy New York program is the first experiment that links private and public funding to help maintain the employer-paid health insurance of unionized workers.

 

UNITE HERE-Healthy New York expands upon a state program -- Healthy New York -- that lowers small employers' premiums by covering the cost of expensive health care claims. Designed to help small employers one at a time, UNITE HERE spent four years working with a variety of institutions -- among them the New York State Department of Insurance and the UNITE HERE National Health Fund -- to develop a model that expands Healthy New York to employers who are under contractual obligation to provide their employees with health insurance contributions that they make to multi-employer benefit funds.

 

To learn more about this program please open the Adobe PDF featuring the article written by Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein attorney and member Richard D. Winsten and Michael Hirsch of Amalgamted Life Insurance.