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Making healthcare accessible to every New Yorker at the lowest possible cost

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Dave Ores

Making healthcare accessible to every New Yorker at the lowest possible cost

Website

drdaveores.org

Year

2026

Sector

Health

Borough

Manhattan

Dr. Dave Ores is running a one-man practice on the premise that all New Yorkers deserve access to healthcare.

To see most doctors in the city, typically you have to book an appointment, confirm your insurance information, check in with a receptionist, and wait to be seen — but not with Dr. Dave Ores. A community doctor based in the Lower East Side, you can…
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~1M
New Yorkers have no health insurance

Source: Health Care for All New York

Publication

The New York Times

The Doctor In The Kitchen

By Brian McDermott
April 24, 2009
Dr. Dave Ores is a physician who runs a nonprofit health care cooperative for city restaurant workers that he sees as a model for how national health care could work…

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Dr. Dave at Tompkins Square Park
@drdavemd

Publication

Huck

Meet the New York doctor who's removing tattoos for free to help change lives

By Alfred Rinaldi
January 2, 2016
Dr Dave — Dr David Ores loves his body art just as much as he loves his Harley. And yet, the New York doctor is on a quest to change lives by removing bad tattoos…
“Dr Dave is a fixture of the Lower East Side and East Village. He is as much the neighbor you know and love as he is the doctor you turn to for help. Dr Dave practices medicine the same⁠”
Niki Russ Federman
Fourth generation Co-owner of Russ & Daughters
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