Healthcare Education Project

07/25/2025

Get the facts about work requirements. They don’t stop “waste, fraud, and abuse,” instead they drown eligible Medicaid recipients in red tape.

The result? Millions of eligible Americans will be driven off their health insurance.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/14/medicaid-work-rules-states-requirements

07/24/2025

The majority of Americans, regardless of party, support Medicaid. But Congress still passed the largest healthcare cuts in American history.
This isn’t just about numbers in a budget. It’s about your local hospital. Your doctor. Your coverage. Your care.

07/24/2025

High temps are expected in some areas of New York today. Learn the signs of heat-related illness & know how to respond. Our Heat Risk & Illness Dashboard has an interactive map for you to check the heat risk forecast in your area. Link in bio.

07/23/2025

HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 8 PM EDT FRIDAY

* WHAT: Heat index values of 100 to 105 expected.

* WHERE: Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Northern Queens, Richmond (Staten Island), and Southern Queens Counties.

* WHEN: From 11 AM to 8 PM EDT Friday.

* IMPACT'S: .Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat illnesses.

Please take caution ⚠️
*Stay in A.C. as much as possible. Go to Cooling shelters, if needed.

* Stay Hydrated, drinking water helps to cool down the body, as well as eating hydrating fruits, such as Watermelons, Strawberries and Coconuts.

07/23/2025

⚠️ New Yorkers, be aware of the symptoms of heat-related illness. Older adults and individuals with chronic diseases are most vulnerable to heat-related illness. More info about extreme heat and where to where to find cooling centers near you via link in bio.

07/23/2025

Common heat-related illnesses are heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat rash and heat stroke. Dizziness, fainting, nausea can be signs of a heat stroke.
Call 911 and keep the person cool every way possible until help arrives. Do not give them liquids! https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21812-heatstroke

07/23/2025

How will Congress’s healthcare cuts affect New Yorkers and our $300 billion healthcare economy? To start, approximately 1.5 million New Yorkers will lose coverage due to changes in eligibility, premium contributions, and co-pays.

https://www.rockinst.org/blog/an-analysis-of-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-obbbas-impact-on-healthcare-for-new-york/

07/23/2025

How will Congress’s healthcare cuts affect New Yorkers and our $300 billion healthcare economy? To start, approximately 1.5 million New Yorkers will lose coverage due to changes in eligibility, premium contributions, and co-pays.

This blog takes a look at the expected changes for New York’s healthcare system with the signing of the federal Reconciliation bill.

07/23/2025

Each summer, on average, more than 500 New Yorkers die prematurely because of hot weather. Swipe through for findings from our latest report ➡️

🔸 Heat-exacerbated deaths increased in the past decade, mainly due to hotter summers overall with more “non-extreme hot days” of 82°F up to but below the extreme heat threshold (95°F).

🔸 Black New Yorkers are more likely to die from heat stress, with death rates two times higher than white New Yorkers. Lack of equitable access to resources — for example, jobs that pay a living wage, affordable and healthy housing with air conditioning, and health care — are causes of these differences in heat-related mortality.
🔸 NYC summers are getting hotter because of climate change. As our climate continues to warm, we expect more heat events that put people’s lives at risk.
🔸 Lack of access to home air conditioning is the most important risk factor for heat-stress death. Among those who died from heat stress, the place of death was most often an un-air-conditioned home.
Visit on.nyc.gov/heatreport to learn more and read the full report.

07/22/2025

Congress’s big broken bill is cutting health coverage.

Costs will go up. Hospitals may close. ER waits may get longer.

Learn more:

Cuts to Medicaid would leave millions of the most vulnerable in our country without healthcare access.

07/22/2025

Congress’s big broken bill is cutting health coverage.
Costs will go up. Hospitals may close. ER waits may get longer.
To Learn more:
https://healthcareeducationproject.org/onebigbill/

07/22/2025

At Fairmont Neighborhood School in the Bronx last week, an eagle-eyed kindergartener just tall enough to peer over a row of elevated flower beds spotted a small red bulb covered with tiny seeds.

Thirty miles south on Staten Island’s North Shore, residents lined up for a bag of affordable fruits and vegetables, filled with items they can’t always find in their neighborhood and recipes to learn how to cook with them.

For the last decade, these dual programs run by the nonprofit Children’s Aid have taught families how to eat healthier on a budget. But now, under President Donald Trump’s new spending bill, the long-standing initiatives and others like them across the state will shut down by October, unless they find a way to plug the funding gap.

Read more from reporter Karen Yi at our link in bio.

Photo credits: Karen Yi/Gothamist