NYC's Healthcare-for-All Collides With Hospital Woes
- While mayor says he saved hospital system, it loses money
- His $100 million plan would divert uninsured to clinics
Bill de Blasio
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says he’s turning the city into a model for how the nation can provide health care to all, including the poor, the uninsured and undocumented immigrants.
In doing so, he boasts he’s saved the city’s public hospitals from bankruptcy and can provide universal care for just $100 million by steering New Yorkers away from emergency rooms and into managed-care clinics. Yet he may have promised more than he can deliver