October 8 New York will become one of the first major USA cities to expand low-priced healthcare to uninsured immigrants regardless of their legal status under a pilot program to launch next spring, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Thursday. NYC mayor’s often make this trip because of the city’s large population of Jewish people.
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He will speak on the topic of “Anti-Semitism in the West: How Cities Must Lead” as the keynote address before the Annual Conference of Mayors.
Mayors from around the world are expected to attend. Parish said she’s “concerned” about a “wrong” de Blasio proposal before the Board of Correction, an oversight panel, to limit jailhouse access to inmates by visitors with serious criminal records. But this trip won’t cost the city a dime, Mr.de Blasio’s office said-because “Israeli entrepreneur” Baruch Eliezer Gross has “generously offered to gift to the City the cost of Mayor’s and staff’s travel and hotel”.
Immigrants in New York have been discouraged from seeking primary or preventative healthcare for reasons including costly services and language barriers, according to a de Blasio-appointed task force.
You’re walking down a sweltering New York City street in July, sun radiating off the sidewalk, the air thick as pea soup, when, suddenly, a blast of cool air washes over you through the open door of a bodega.
In his 21 months in office, he has visited Europe four times, with stops in England, France and Italy, and crisscrossed the continental United States.
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The Mayor’s office announced the planned Israel trip back in March, though at the time, it had been planned for the summer.
