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Presents the results of several surveys and reports related to medical care as of October 2003. Increase in private health insurance premiums according to the 2003 Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey; Growth of community health care safety nets due to improved practices according to a study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change; Effect of financial problems on the viability of New York City's general care hospitals according to a quarterly report issued by the United Hospital Fund. INSET: SMALLPOX EFFORT COUND HURT CORE PUBLIC HEALTH ACTIVITIES.

The article focuses on the efforts of insurance companies in New York to enroll the younger population in health plans in the second year of implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. It attributes the difficulty of enrolling young people to non-native English speakers who do not understand health insurance and expensive premiums. The target of insurers to reach immigrants and New Yorkers who had been insured through the health plan Freelancers Union is discussed.

A six-month strike by 220 workers at a nursing home in the Bronx is likely to end next week following a federal judge's ruling on Thursday that the employer had committed ''serious and pervasive'' labor law violations. The judge, Denise L. Cote of Federal District Court in Manhattan, ordered the nursing home, the Kingsbridge Heights Rehabilitation and Care Center, to resume paying health insurance premiums for employees. The home's failure to pay those premiums caused the union to strike on Feb. 20. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Rate hikes targeted," in the February 27, 2006 issue, and another article related to middle class in New York published in the February 6, 2006 issue.

Presents the monthly premiums an employer in New York City, New York pays to cover its workforce with a PHS/Guardian major medical insurance plan purchased through a broker, compared with the cost through Epix, a professional employer organization.