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Peter Newell

Director

Email: pnewell@uhfnyc.org

Health Insurance Project Director Peter Newell joined the Fund in 2007 after a long tenure as executive director of the New York State Assembly Committee on Insurance and staff director for Assemblymember Pete Grannis.  During that time, he represented the Assembly Majority in negotiations on a series of major health care reforms, including the Community Rating/Open Enrollment law (1992), the Point of Service law (1995), the Managed Care Consumer Protection Act (1996), the Prompt Payment law (1998), and HCRA 2000, which created the Family Health Plus and Healthy NY programs.  Earlier in his Assembly career, Mr. Newell directed the Assembly’s Committee on Housing, and worked to implement affordable housing programs.

Mr. Newell’s work at the Fund focuses on the commercial insurance market and public managed care programs.  In 2009, he co-authored The Big Picture: Private and Public Health Insurance Markets in New York, and Hard Times and Health Insurance: Staying Covered When You Lose Your Job.  A former reporter and editor for weekly newspapers in Manhattan, he holds a BA in English from the University of Notre Dame.