They also opposed a late amendment to the bill that would
threaten essential benefits currently covered under Obamacare, including maternity care, preventive care, prescription drugs and mental health coverage.
In a March 5 letter addressed to Julio Batista, then president of WHLDC, Stringer wrote that the nonprofit's «lack of action on a number of
essential tasks for properly establishing the WHLDC
threatens to undermine the implementation of the Community
Benefits Agreement.»