Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) - NY Metro Chapter

12/08/2024

Enacting the NY Health Act will save NY state BILLIONS compared to what we spend now for healthcare. It’s morally & fiscally the only responsible decision.

www.pnhpnymetro.org/economic_analysis_nyhealthact

12/05/2024

Organize with us to pass the NY Health Act & Medicare for All - single payer universal healthcare.

Together we can end for-profit insurance interference in our care.
All care for all people should be covered & free at the point of care. Patients & their team of health workers should determine the care needed, not insurance corporations with the perverse incentive to deny care to pocket more money.

Credit to for the original graphic & unflagging solidarity with working people

12/03/2024

This Giving Tuesday, invest in the movement for universal, single-payer, healthcare for all: www.pnhpnymetro.org/eoy_2024

Our advocacy, leadership-building, educational and organizing efforts are more important now than ever. We must make it clear to New York lawmakers that they have an urgent duty to make a real difference in the lives of millions by passing the New York Health Act, leading the way to Medicare for All.

12/01/2024

RSVP for our resolution writing workshop happening tomorrow, Mon, Dec 2nd, 7pm to 8:30pm, focused on medical society resolutions to from profitization, and &

More info & RSVP: http://bit.ly/MedSocResDec2

Featured Speaker:
Eve Shapiro, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician in Tucson, AZ, where she ran a private practice specializing in adolescent medicine for over 30 years. She also served as clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Since selling her practice, Dr. Shapiro has been practicing part time and serving in leadership positions with Physicians for a National Health Program and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Hosted by
Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP)
NYC Against Segregated Healthcare (NYCASH)
NY Doctors Coalition
Physicians for a National Health Program - NY Metro Chapter (PNHP NY Metro)

11/29/2024

Donate today to our Matching Donation Challenge! Every eligible dollar donated, from now until Thursday, December 12th, up to $20,000, will be doubled - matched dollar-for-dollar by members of our committed Advisory Board.

www.pnhpnymetro.org/eoy_2024

There are three ways to qualify for the match to help us raise $40,000:

1. Become a FIRST-TIME donor at any amount!

2. Become a SUSTAINING monthly donor at $25 per month or more! Includes annual membership in PNHP National + enables our Chapter to budget most effectively for the coming year.

3. Become a REPEAT donor with an End-Of-Year contribution of $250 or more! Includes annual membership in PNHP National.

To contribute by check, make checks payable to PNHP-NY Metro and mail to: PO Box 352, New York, NY 10028

Your generous contribution will enable us to continue to offer important programs, leadership-building, and organizing opportunities to protect our existing public healthcare programs - and to pass the New York Health Act, on the path to Medicare for All.

11/15/2024

We’re at the Summit today in Chicago kicking off the Annual Meeting this weekend. Sharing just some of the incredible poster presentations developed by medical students from SNaHP chapters across the country, including the poster shown in slide 1, created by our current Student Fellows Jennifer Sugijanto & Zachary Gallin! We are so excited for the future of medicine with the incoming generation of brilliant dedicated justice minded health workers advocating for a more just, equitable single payer healthcare system in which we all can thrive.

11/01/2024

From SUNY Downstate to Beth Israel, communities deserve to know BEFORE their hospital closes!

Thank you to the New York City Council for your hearing on healthcare access and resolution urging Governor Kathy Hochul to sign my LICH bill with Hon. Gustavo Rivera.

We need better New York State oversight and transparency.

As history repeats itself, it's more important than ever to have stronger state oversight and REAL community engagement to protect the public’s health.

I'm proud to work with a dedicated group of colleagues and advocates.

10/29/2024

Deep appreciation for champion citing the need to in her testimony at the hearing today on hospital closures, the devastating impact on already under-resourced communities & the need for Local Input in Community Healthcare Act.

10/24/2024

Today we rallied with NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees & Cross-union Retirees Organizing Committee CROC at City Hall to welcome announcement of new City Council bill, intro 1096, that could help block attempts by the Adams administration to deny city retirees promised and Medigap benefits and to push retirees onto harmful profitized plans.

10/23/2024

10/18/2024

Due to a scheduling conflict we are postponing our Queens NY Health Act Town Hall, originally scheduled for this Sunday Oct 20.
Please stay tuned for announcement of the new date by following us here, and/or signing up for our listserv on our website: www.pnhpnymetro.org/join

10/03/2024

On Monday we rallied & marched with NY retirees to from the profitized Medicare disAdvantage schemes that siphon taxpayer dollars away from care & into the pockets of insurance corporation CEO's & shareholders. We join them in the call to expand & improve traditional public Medicare and to & !

Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted for stealing taxpayer money for himself. Seniors in New York are now protesting for him to switch their Medicare Advantage...

10/03/2024

Come hear from student organizers and experts about some of the essential ongoing efforts to end the segregation of healthcare in New York.

Join us for our Student-Led free virtual public Forum: Segregation in Healthcare on Tuesday, Oct 22 at 7:30 PM EST on Zoom.

RSVP: bit.ly/Oct2024Forum

09/27/2024

JOIN US this coming Monday, September 30, to rally and march with seniors, healthcare workers, and advocates to protest corporate greed in the US healthcare system, in particular Medicare Advantage plans which funnel taxpayer money that should go towards care into the pockets insurance corporations instead.

We will start at 11:30am at NYC City Hall Park at the Jacob Wrey Mould Fountain and then will march to the NYC offices of Aetna CVS Health for another short rally at 1:30pm.

Join us to tell both New York elected officials and health insurance corporations to stop the privatization of our cherished public health programs and to expand and improve them instead.

RSVP here: bit.ly/Sept30NYC

Sign the petition to Mayor Adams' administration here: bit.ly/NYCRetireesPetition

09/13/2024

Calling all union members who live or work full time in New York!
Join us this coming Tuesday Sept 17 at 7pm for a Labor-led Town Hall on the - a bill to provide universal, comprehensive healthcare, including Long Term Care - for all who live or work full time in NY, guaranteed by law, not tied to your job.

RSVP: www.bit.ly/LaborledNYHA

Featured Speakers:
Roona Ray, MD, MPH: Doctors Council SEIU member, and Vice Chair of PNHP NY Metro

Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN: Immediate Past President of the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA); Bronx ER nurse and NYSNA Leader at Montefiore Hospital; Decades Long Community Activist for a Single Payer System

Julie Schwarzberg: Past Executive Vice President of Local 768, Health Services Employees DC 37 AFSCME, and Past Chair of the Le***an and Gay Issues Committee, DC 37 AFSCME; and Founder and Chair of the Cross-Union Retirees Organizing Committee (CROC)

Learn how this life-saving legislation would benefit rank-and-file union members and their unions, and hear how union members can get involved in organizing to & support this transformational bill. Audience Q&A will be included.

09/13/2024

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN for the Universal Healthcare Legislative Advocacy Fellowship! Apply by Friday, September 27, 11:00pm.

Apply here: bit.ly/UHLAF2024

The UHLAF program is designed for medical students, health workers and social justice advocates who are fairly new to organizing. There will be monthly interactive virtual trainings, informal in-person gatherings, breakout groups, and opportunities (including Lobby Day 2025 in March) to apply your new skills in real world settings.

The program is 7:30pm-9:00pm the first Thursday of every month October 2024 - April 2025.

09/06/2024

Don't forget to RSVP & join us tomorrow Sat. 9/7 to talk with rank & file NYers about how union members will benefit when we !
http://bit.ly/RSVP2024LaborParadeNYHA

The will provide all NYers with universal healthcare & pave the way for . Join the fight.

Join us Sept 7 for the LARGEST ever NY Health Act labor canvass in NY!

Scan the code in the graphic or RSVP here: www.bit.ly/RSVP2024LaborParadeNYHA to meet us at the NYC Labor Day Parade on the South West corner of West 44th Street & 5th Ave, any time between 9am & noon, to pick up materials & receive instructions.

A canvassing training will be held in the days before the canvass for anyone who is new to canvassing or needs a refresher. RSVP above for info.

Let's talk with rank-and-file members about the & why unions need to support this transformational life-saving legislation.
Labor4NYHealth