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Affordable Healthcare for New York City
High Hospital Prices for New Yorkers
The last election made clear that affordability is the key issue in New York City today. The high prices hospitals charge are hurting New York families.
Since 2000, healthcare expenses have increased three times the rate of inflation and have outpaced the cost of basic necessities by 40 percent—making affordable care an even greater challenge for New Yorkers.
New York City has the highest relative price for inpatient and outpatient services compared to all other major U.S. cities, underscoring the urgent need for action to improve affordability for consumers.
Average hospital prices relative to Medicare, inpatient and outpatient services*
Hospital Prices Are Driving Employer and Public Spending
After wages and benefits, health care is the next largest component of the City budget. For the past several years, the City and its union workers have worked to design a new, modernized City PPO plan that would increase access to prevention, care of chronic conditions, and allow the City to bring down its annual rate of increase in health care costs and maintain and sustain the benefits on which workers rely.
The City of New York spends more than $10 billion annually on healthcare, providing City workers with comprehensive access to hospitals throughout the five boroughs. However, maintaining this level of access requires the City to address rising costs and bring down spending which is threatening the City’s ability to provide workers who keep New York City running with the high-quality care they deserve.
Working with Northwell Health to Prioritize Affordability
for New Yorkers
Northwell Health, already New York State’s largest healthcare system, is aggressively pursuing unchecked expansion—operating two dozen hospitals and 900 outpatient care centers, and now stretching into New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania after its merger with Nuvance. Northwell Health's relentless expansion is inflicting a heavy toll on New York City and its public servants—teachers, police officers, firefighters, and countless others—who are being forced to absorb escalating costs. Instead of supporting the communities it serves, Northwell is asking for rates 30% above existing rates, which will directly lead to increased employer and consumer health care costs.
Healthcare providers like Northwell have an obligation to take action and work collaboratively to help the City and employers preserve healthcare access for hardworking New Yorkers.
Join the Fight for Healthcare Affordability
It’s time to make your voice heard! New Yorkers deserve affordable healthcare. Northwell’s actions are putting healthcare access for city workers at risk. We need your help to ensure Northwell comes to the table and negotiates in good faith.
What you can do: Click the button below to send an email to Mayor Mamdani and Governor Hochul—tell them to demand Northwell put working families and our public servants first. Together, we can protect the healthcare benefits city workers, and their families depend on.
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*Source: Prices Paid to Hospitals by Private Health Plans: Findings from Round 5.1 of an Employer-Led Transparency Initiative
Data reflects hospitals located within each city, not the surrounding metro regions, and excludes "safety net hospitals".
New York City data includes hospitals within New York, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, Jamaica, Flushing, Elmhurst, and Far Rockaway.