New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Jan. 8 a health care plan to cover an estimated 600,000 residents, including undocumented residents. The announcement was first made on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and later that same day at the Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx.
“About 600,000 New Yorkers who do not have any health care coverage at all ... have no where to turn—except the emergency room, which is exactly the last place we want to see people go,” said de Blasio at the Lincoln Medical Center.
