{"id":135625,"date":"2026-02-16T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135625\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:30:07","slug":"why-nearly-2-million-new-yorkers-with-essential-plan-healthcare-may-soon-lose-their-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135625\/","title":{"rendered":"Why nearly 2 million New Yorkers with \u2018Essential Plan\u2019 healthcare may soon lose their coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/info.nystateofhealth.ny.gov\/stay-connected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2 million people<\/a> who rely on New York\u2019s publicly funded health coverage, the Essential Plan, are facing an uncertain future as federal budget cuts threaten to destabilize the program. To mitigate potential cuts, Gov. Kathy Hochul is working on a way to protect the coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Federal cuts to New York\u2019s Essential Plan total $7.5 billion, more than half of the program\u2019s annual funding, state officials said. The cuts endanger the program\u2019s continued viability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/nys-essential-plan-health-coverage\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tWhy nearly 2 million New Yorkers with \u2018Essential Plan\u2019 healthcare may soon lose their coverage &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Nearly 2 million people who rely on New York\u2019s publicly funded health coverage, the Essential Plan, are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[30699,6830,4429,232,7050,9,24,12,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-135625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-business-finance","9":"tag-essential-plan","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-lifestyle","12":"tag-medicaid","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-staten-island","18":"tag-staten-island-headlines","19":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}