# Gustavo Rivera

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Hochul vetoes hospital closure reform bill for the second year in a row

Gov. Kathy Hochul for the second time vetoed a bill to give communities more warning before hospitals close, blocking a measure that health advocates say is critical as federal funding cuts threaten to push financially struggling hospitals toward shuttering. Hochul refused to sign the Local Input i…

State faces scrutiny over $1.4B in delayed health plan tax payments

State health officials faced sharp questioning during a legislative budget hearing Tuesday over how they plan to spend $1 billion in unexpected health insurance tax revenue — especially since they have yet to distribute $1.4 billion already collected to struggling hospitals and nursing homes.New Yo…

Union pushes to cut insurers from Medicaid home care payment system

The state’s largest health care workers’ union is renewing a legislative push to remove private, third-party insurers from the home care payment system, a policy it says could save the state $3.5 billion per year in administrative costs. 1199SEIU Healthcare Workers East held a rally on Monday to ca…

Legislature's One-House Budgets + Health Care State Budget Funding

The state Legislature unveiled its one-house budget resolutions in response to Gov. Kathy Hochul's FY'27 executive budget proposal. We dive into the legislature's priorities with Kate Lisa, of City and State New York, and Samuel King, of WXXI and the NYPNN. State Senate Health Committee Chair Gusta…

Hundreds Rally at Capitol for Single Payer Health Care

On Tuesday, March 17th, health care providers and advocates came to Albany for the New York Health Lobby Day. NY Health is a single-payer universal health care bill that covers all New Yorkers while eliminating co-pays, premiums and deductibles. The groups also support legislation to increase fundi…

Senator Gustavo Rivera on State Budget Negotiations, Health Policy, & More

State Senator Gustavo Rivera, a Bronx Democrat and chair of the Senate health committee, joined the show to discuss state budget negotiations with under two weeks until the April 1 start of the new fiscal year. The conversation touched on major areas of negotiation among Governor Hochul and the two…

Closing the health insurance gap for low-income New Yorkers

April 1, 2026- State Senate Health Committee Chair Gustavo Rivera, a Bronx Democrat, explains a proposal to ensure that more than 400,000 New Yorkers poised to lose their government health insurance this summer will still be covered by the state.

Vaccine Dictator Governor Hochul Strikes Again, AI Spies in Your Car, Shots Fired at WHCD

It happened again! Just as it did three years ago. The NY Assembly Health Committee passed another round of TERRIBLE Vaccine bills. We NEED YOUR HELP! URGENT: New Yorkers! Please share this information. Thank you! Feat Michael Kane of Teachers For Choice Teachers for Choice Please see summa…

Episode 56: How The Big Beautiful Bill Threatens the Health and Wellbeing of Garifuna New Yorkers

Send us Fan Mail In this critical episode, host José Francisco Ávila breaks down the federal legislation H.R. 1 (the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act") and uncovers its disproportionate, sweeping impacts on Garifuna American New Yorkers. While the bill reshapes national tax codes, it introduces a massiv…

BronxTalk: NYS Senator Gustavo Rivera

The guest on this week's BronxTalk is State Senator Gustavo Rivera of the 33rd Senatorial District, which includes the Bronx neighborhoods of Fordham, Belmont, Riverdale, Kingsbridge Heights, Norwood, Bedford Park, Pelham Parkway, Van Nest, Morris Park, and parts of Allerton. He talks with host Gar…