Brooklyn, NY – Yesterday, January 8, 2019, Mayor Bill De Blasio announced that he will implement a comprehensive health care program that will be inclusive of all New York City citizens regardless of immigration status or economic situation. The program is an extension of NYC’s public health insurance option, MetroPlus. Disenfranchised groups such as undocumented immigrants, the uninsured, and others face many medical complications for lack of health care programs such as this.

"The announcement of this program could not come at a better time. Even as the country at large grapples with the Trump Administration's fearsome immigration policies and tactics, New York City stands as an example and guarantees health care to all, including targeted immigrants.,” says Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte. "Culturally sensitive and high quality health care should be a basic human right. With NYC Care, the citizens of this great city can finally exercise that right.”

NYC Care, as the program will be called, will be available via the city’s website or dialing 311. The program will be applied in the Bronx first and then will be available for all New York citizens in 2021.

For more information:

• BK Reader - De Blasio Promises Health Care for All New Yorkers
• ABC News - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio unveils health care program for city residents, including undocumented immigrants
• The Washington Post - New York City mayor vows health care for all — including undocumented immigrants