citizen action of new york造句

• But Richard Schrader, director of Citizen Action of New York City, attacked the plan.
• The consumer groups include Community Catalyst, a national health care advocacy organization, and Citizen Action of New York.
• One advocacy group, Citizen Action of New York, estimated that the new structure would deprive policyholders of nearly $ 9 billion.
• The coalition includes groups such as Citizen Action of New York, the Vermont Public Interest Research Group and the Congress of California Seniors.
• But Richard Kirsch, executive director for Citizen Action of New York, a consumer advocacy group, said Oxford was bound to turn to customers to help heal its financial wounds.
• "The good news is that consumers will have many new protections, " said Richard Kirsch, executive director of Citizen Action of New York, a government watchdog group.
• The Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a coalition in New York of labor unions, New Party, and a variety of public interest groups such as Citizen Action of New York.
• Richard Schrader, director of Citizen Action of New York City, a public advocacy group, said that he had met several times with the commission to try and develop an effective campaign-finance proposal.
• Plaintiffs in the consumer coalition include the New York Statewide Senior Action Council, Citizen Action of New York, Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation, Health Care For All, and the Massachusetts Senior Action Council.
• But an October 1996 memo to Citizen Action of New York, as well as Ira Arlook, executive director of national Citizen Action, and Citizen Action's board members indicates that the affilates had aired concerns.
• The proposal, which is being spearheaded by Citizen Action of New York, an advocacy group, would set up a voluntary system under which candidates could raise no more than 20 percent of their money from private donors.
• "Bell Atlantic still hasn't passed the test to show it can fully meet consumers'needs when it switches ( local ) phone companies, " said Richard Kirsch of Citizen Action of New York.
• "It helps that there are three Democrats who are actively campaigning on this, " said Richard Kirsch, executive director of Citizen Action of New York, a nonprofit government watchdog group active in health care issues.
• Critics of the effort, like Citizen Action of New York, have said the national trend of insurers becoming for-profit companies has led to more people without insurance while eroding the public's faith in the health system.
• Richard Kirsch, executive director of Citizen Action of New York, said a study recently completed by his organization showed that Republican opponents do not pose as great a threat to marginal Democrats as politicians on both sides of the aisle have suggested.
• "It's symbolically very important that Connecticut would do this, " said Richard Kirsch, executive director of Citizen Action of New York, a consumer group that is lobbying the New York state Legislature to adopt a similar provision.
• NYSUT's Albany headquarters serves as the operating center for this outfit, whose members include Planned Parenthood, Citizen Action of New York State, the Upstate New York Black Women's Health Project and 20 or so other mostly liberal organizations.
• "HMOs will no longer be judge and jury in New York when consumers file a complaint, " said Richard Kirsch, executive director of Citizen Action of New York, one of many consumer groups that had lobbied for the bill.
• "I think that there's broad agreement that there is not a political party that speaks for hard-working New Yorkers who struggle from paycheck to paycheck, " said Karen Scharff, executive director of Citizen Action of New York.
• "The old adage is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, if you have access to preventive care you are more likely to avoid long term, more serious injuries, " said Richard Kirsch, executive director of Citizen Action of New York.