PNHP NY Metro advocates & organizes for universal single-payer healthcare
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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) is a nonprofit organization of 20,000 physicians, medical students, and health professionals who support single-payer national health insurance.
Join us for our fall Health Justice Potluck Picnic!
RSVP: bit.ly/PicnicFall2024
Saturday September 21
1-4pm
Meet future, current & retired health workers & advocates for single-payer universal healthcare, racial, economic & health justice + learn how to get more involved 💪🌱🐦🌞🗣️🍎😋🌳🐿️
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
Please save the date to join us on Zoom for PNHP NY Metro's first forum of Fall 2024 to hear from activists at the forefront of current healthcare struggles, and to learn from policy experts about the 2024 campaign proposals regarding healthcare and what the implications could be for the future of our healthcare system.
We will discuss how to protect Medicare and Medicaid, our public healthcare programs, from further profitization. And, building on those fights, we will discuss how to improve and expand them as we continue to grow the movement for Single Payer.
More info to come!
Read the full article on value-based care by Jess McAllen in The Baffler Magazine, here: www.thebaffler.com/latest/value-judgment-mcallen
“[Value-based care is] a portal for profiteering for organizations like health insurance companies & private equity, that have no expertise in healthcare, looking to see how much money they can skew out of healthcare.”" -Dr. Stephen Kemble
Join us September 7 at the Labor Day Parade for the LARGEST NY Health Act labor canvass in NY!
RSVP today: Scan the QR Code or visit www.bit.ly/RSVP2024LaborParadeNYHA
Let's talk with hundreds of rank-and-file members about how unions & their members will benefit from passage of the & why unions need to support this transformational life-saving legislation.
When we & take healthcare off the bargaining table unions will be freed up to negotiate for higher wages & benefits without any threats to their healthcare.
NEW TIME: 11am-1pm due to morning rain forecast.
Join Cross-union Retirees Organizing Committee CROC at the Grand Army Farmer's Market in Brooklyn this Saturday between 10am & noon to sign a card in honor of Medicare's Birthday & learn more about the profit-driven dangers of Medicare Advantage.
& demand expanded & improved !
Scan the QR Code below to sign the petition & join the fight to expand traditional public Medicare & protect it from privatization.
Yesterday we celebrated Pride 🌈 at Reclaim Pride Coalition Q***r Liberation March & ACT UP New York health fair handing out harm reduction supplies & talking with people about the !
LGBTQ+ Justice is Health Justice!
March in Pride with us TOMORROW - Sunday, June 30!
PNHP NY Metro will lead our contingent at the Reclaim Pride Coalition Q***r Liberation March.
Meet up at 11AM at 15 Sheridan Square (look for the Sheridan Arms awning & PNHP banner pictured below).
Doctors & health workers please wear your white coats & scrubs! We will have a few signs to share but please bring your own as well!
RSVP: bit.ly/NYHA2024PRIDE
Help us honor Make the Road New York THIS THURSDAY June 13th at our benefit Celebrating Single Payer Champions!
Make the Road’s admirable mission is to build the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice. They are one of the lead organization of the Campaign, and they are invaluable partners in the fight to !
Sliding scale & free tickets are available, get your tickets today! www.pnhpnymetro.org
Join us this Thursday at 6pm to celebrate the incredible Lifetime Achievements of civil rights icon, Dr. Evie Jones Rich, and our other single payer champions!
Learn all about Evie and get your in-person or online tickets today: www.pnhpnymetro.org/cspc2024
Sliding scale & free tickets are available. Come, raise a toast and help us to recognize the contributions of some of the leaders in our health justice movement!
Announcing our first Honoree for our 2024 Benefit Celebrating Single Payer Champions - Dr. Oliver Fein!
Dr. Fein is a household name in the field of health justice. As its leader for over 30 years, he built PNHP NY Metro into the largest PNHP chapter and has won innumerable awards from countless public health and policy organizations.
Visit www.pnhpnymetro.org/cspc2024 to learn more about him and to get your tickets to join us on June 13 at 6PM. Join us to toast Dr. Oliver Fein and our other single payer champions, to be announced!
Join us this coming Tuesday for On The Rise: Doctors Unionizing & Organizing for Single Payer -our May forum with featured speakers from Committee of Interns and Residents Union of American Physicians and Dentists & Doctors Council!
RSVP: bit.ly/May2024HealthForum
Tues May 14 @ 7:30PM
Join us for a Health Justice Potluck Picnic in Central Park this Saturday, May 11 at 2pm to celebrate spring, the completion of another school year and PNHP NY Metro’s 2023/24 Universal Healthcare Legislative Advocacy Fellowship, newly matched resident physicians, the inspiring recent upswell of student and health worker organizing and demonstrations in support of a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and divestment from warfare, and our collective advocacy for health justice.
Come meet future, current, and retired health workers and advocates for single-payer universal healthcare, racial, economic, and social justice, build community, and learn how to get more involved.
RSVP / Info / Map: bit.ly/SpringPicnic2024
WHEN:
Saturday, May 11 at 2pm
WHERE:
Central Park, just above Sheep Meadow & to the east of Le Pain Quotidien
Look for the large boulders & PNHP banner pictured below.
Wheelchair accessible and near accessible restrooms.
We‘ll be set up for social distancing; masking is welcome.
SAVE THE DATE!
Thursday, June 13 @ 6PM
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South NYC
Join us for a Celebratory Reception honoring our 2024 Single Payer Champions in the movement for equitable, comprehensive healthcare for all & health justice!
All New Yorkers suffer from our expensive, confusingly complicated, and profit-driven healthcare system, but immigrants face unique challenges. Our April forum will feature panelists from immigrant communities, their employers, and healthcare providers who will discuss barriers to care and how healthcare access for immigrants would be improved by passing Coverage For All. We will connect this struggle to our work to pass the New York Health Act for comprehensive, universal healthcare for all New Yorkers, without income, employment, or citizenship restrictions.
Todxs lxs neoyorquinxs sufren pornuestro sistema de salud costoso, confusamente complicado y orientadopor las ganancias, pero los inmigrantes enfrentan desafíos únicos.Nuestro foro de abril contará con panelistas de comunidadesinmigrantes, sus empleadores y proveedores de atención médica quediscutirán las barreras a la atención y cómo se mejoraría el acceso ala atención médica para los inmigrantes al aprobar Cobertura ParaTodxs. Conectaremos esta lucha con nuestro trabajo para aprobar la Leyde Salud de Nueva York para una atención médica integral y universalpara todxs los neoyorquinxs, sin restricciones de ingresos, empleo, orciudadania.
Join us for a Healthcare Town Hall with NY State Senator Shelley Mayer (SD 37) on Saturday April 27th from 10am-12pm at the Will Branch of the Yonkers Public Library!
Additional speakers TBA
RSVP: bit.ly/HealthTownHallApril27
Yonkers Public Library - Will Branch
1500 Central Park Avenue
Come to discuss the healthcare issues facing the local community and efforts to : NY's bill to provide comprehensive healthcare for every New Yorker regardless of ability to pay, citizenship, age, gender, employment or any other status.
Co-sponsored by:
NYCD16 Indivisible Campaign for New York Health NYPIRG Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) - NY Metro Chapter
RSVP today bit.ly/April2024HealthForum to join Make the Road New York, CACF: Coalition for Asian American Children & Families, The New York Immigration Coalition, and Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) - NY Metro Chapter for our April 16th 7PM forum on immigrant healthcare in New York State.
All New Yorkers suffer from our expensive, confusingly complicated, and profit-driven healthcare system, but immigrants face unique challenges. Our April forum will feature panelists from immigrant communities, their employers, and healthcare providers who will discuss barriers to care and how healthcare access for immigrants would be improved by passing Coverage For All. We will connect this struggle to our work to pass the New York Health Act for comprehensive, universal healthcare for all New Yorkers, without income, employment, or citizenship restrictions.
Confirme su asistencia hoy bit.ly/April2024HealthForum para unirse a Make The Road-NY, CACF, NYIC y PNHP NY Metro para nuestro foro del 16 de Abril sobre la atención médica para inmigrantes en el estado de Nueva York.
Todxs lxs neoyorquinxs sufren por nuestro sistema de salud costoso, confusamente complicado y orientado por las ganancias, pero los inmigrantes enfrentan desafíos únicos. Nuestro foro de abril contará con panelistas de comunidades inmigrantes, sus empleadores y proveedores de atención médica que discutirán las barreras a la atención y cómo se mejoraría el acceso a la atención médica para los inmigrantes al aprobar Cobertura Para Todxs. Conectaremos esta lucha con nuestro trabajo para aprobar la Ley de Salud de Nueva York para una atención médica integral y universal para todxs los neoyorquinxs, sin restricciones de ingresos, empleo, or ciudadania.
RSVP TODAY bit.ly/LobbyNYHA2024 to join us for our 2024 Virtual Lobby Day for Health Workers, Residents, Students, and Advocates Tues March 19!
Deadline to RSVP is Fri March 8 at 5pm!
In lead-up we are cohosting a NY Health Act 101 town hall with Cross-union Retirees Organizing Committee CROC AND we are offering a virtual Lobby Training on March 12 - RSVP for the training at the same Lobby Day RSVP link above.
More info & links to RSVP are on our website www.pnhpnymetro.org
We need everyone in the fight to !
RSVP www.pnhpnymetro.org for the March 11 Virtual New York Health Act Town Hall
Monday, March 11 @ 7:30PM
Organized in partnership with the Cross-union Retirees Organizing Committee CROC and Campaign for New York Health
Featured speakers:
🍎 Richard Gottfried, former NY State Assemblyman and lead sponsor and author of the NY Health Act, current Board Member of the NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program
🍎 Dr. Betty Kolod, Board Chair of the NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program
Did you miss our forum on NYC hospital closures this past Tues?
The recording & resources are here: http://pnhpnymetro.org/past_forums
Featured Speakers:
Christina Towne, New York State Nurses Association Lead Strategic Researcher
Redetha Abrahams-Nichols, DNP, MPA, RN United University Professions Downstate Chapter President
NY State Senator Kristen Gonzalez
Paul Lee, MD, President of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary Alumni Association & co-founder of Save NYEE
Moderator: Mark Hannay Metro New York Health Care for All
TONIGHT! Tue Feb 13th @ 6pm
Health Before Profits Forum
RSVP for ZOOM bit.ly/GreaterGoodForums2024
Tune in for a panel discussion including our own PNHP NY Metro Board Chair, Dr. Betty Kolod
The includes Long Term Care services that are desperately needed by so many families in NY & the nation.
Tonight Feb 12 at 8pm on zoom > https://nypan.org/private/zoom New York Progressive Action Network Single Payer Committee will host PNHP NY Metro Advisory Board member, Dr. Henry Moss, to discuss.
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Join us for a virtual NY Health Act Town Hall
This Thursday Jan 25 @ 5:30PM
RSVP: bit.ly/NYHAJAN25
All are welcome to attend & learn about our state bill to provide comprehensive, universal healthcare to ALL who live & work full time in NY!
We can't do this work without you!
Please consider becoming a sustaining donor www.pnhpnymetro.org/eoy_2023sustain or making an end-of-year contribution to help fuel the fight for single-payer & health justice in NY www.pnhpnymetro.org/eoy_2023
Thank you!
We at the NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP-NY Metro) believe that healthcare is a human right. As an organization of health justice activists that works tirelessly to transform our healthcare system from one that is unjust and profit-driven to one that is more just and based on principles of human rights, we urge President Biden & Congress to apply human rights principles and laws in both our own country and internationally.
We join the growing movement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire, the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid, the release of all hostages and detained people, and an end to violence and destruction. We stand in solidarity with the healthcare and humanitarian workers in Gaza as they work to provide care in a time of crisis, under conditions that do not support health and healing.
PNHP NY Metro is proud to join the and advocates across the state in support of The People's Budget & a
"Ensuring every New Yorker has high-quality, affordable and comprehensive healthcare, including dental, vision, hearing, and long-term care, is a fundamental guarantee of the New York Health Act. NYS has the opportunity to lead the nation in providing care for all as a human right, affirming that uninsurance, healthcare segregation & medical bankruptcy are incompatible with the broader fight for racial justice.” Betty Kolod, MD, MPH & Oliver Fein, MD !
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SAVE THE DATE! Thursday, June 13 @ 6PM Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South NYC Join us for a Celebratory Reception honoring our 2024 Single Payer Champions in the movement for equitable, comprehensive healthcare for all & health justice! #PassNYHealth #Medicare4All
All New Yorkers suffer from our expensive, confusingly complicated, and profit-driven healthcare system, but immigrants face unique challenges. Our April forum will feature panelists from immigrant communities, their employers, and healthcare providers who will discuss barriers to care and how healthcare access for immigrants would be improved by passing Coverage For All. We will connect this struggle to our work to pass the New York Health Act for comprehensive, universal healthcare for all New Yorkers, without income, employment, or citizenship restrictions. Todxs lxs neoyorquinxs sufren pornuestro sistema de salud costoso, confusamente complicado y orientadopor las ganancias, pero los inmigrantes enfrentan desafíos únicos.Nuestro foro de abril contará con panelistas de comunidadesinmigrantes, sus empleadores y proveedores de atención médica quediscutirán las barreras a la atención y cómo se mejoraría el acceso ala atención médica para los inmigrantes al aprobar Cobertura ParaTodxs. Conectaremos esta lucha con nuestro trabajo para aprobar la Leyde Salud de Nueva York para una atención médica integral y universalpara todxs los neoyorquinxs, sin restricciones de ingresos, empleo, orciudadania. #PassNYHealth #Coverage4All #NYHealthAct
We can't do this work without YOU! Please contribute this #GivingTuesday to help #PassNYHealth #MedicareForAll! Become a monthly sustaining donor: http://pnhpnymetro.org/recurring_donations or make a one-time contribution http://pnhpnymetro.org/contribute to fuel the fight for health justice.
Too many deaths caused by @govkemp refusing to expand Medicaid. Enough risking our health for profit & political gain! #Georgia #ExpandMedicaid end hospital closures + pass #Medicare4All NOW! #PNHP2023
Just a few hours and $3,000 remaining in our Fall Matching Fund - please contribute TODAY to support our work & help us unlock the full $20,000 matching fund pledged by our Advisory Board! Every dollar donated through the link below or by check (address on our website), up to $20,000, will be doubled! Please give if you can: www.pnhpnymetro.org/matchinggrant_2023
PNHP NY Metro proudly joined thousands in the streets of NYC on Sunday to demand President Biden and world leaders take bold #ClimateAction. We cannot allow the health of people & the planet to be sacrificed for corporate profits any longer! #EndFossilFuels #PassNYHealth #MedicareForAll
Chanting nurses "Healthcare is a human right, not just for the rich and white"
Get your tickets TODAY to join us June 20 for our benefit Celebrating Single Payer Champions! In-person & virtual tickets & more info available here: http://pnhpnymetro.org/cspc2023
Save the date! Join us Tuesday June 20, 2023 for a reception Celebrating Single-Payer Champions. More details to come, sign up for our mailing list & check our website for updates & announcement of our honorees: www.pnhpnymetro.org #PassNYHealth #MedicareForAll
We celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by continuing his struggle for justice! Thank you Prince for speaking out about the racism allowed to flourish within the for-profit system! Share YOUR #MedStoryMonday: http://bit.ly/MedStoryMonday #PassNYHealth #MedicareForAll
Patients shouldn't be forced to leave the hospital against medical advice due to the high cost of healthcare. Thank you Dr. Wegener for speaking out and sharing your experience! Share YOUR #MedStoryMonday: http://bit.ly/MedStoryMonday #PassNYHealth #MedicareForAll
Thank YOU for your support in 2022! We're ringing in the New Year with a renewed resolve to grow the movement for single-payer healthcare to #PassNYHealth #MedicareForAll and we can't do it without you! Don't delay, make a tax-deductible, one time donation or become a sustaining donor before the end of the day today: http://pnhpnymetro.org/eoy_2022
Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, a day when people nationwide unite to strengthen nonprofits that reflect their values. We hope you’ll support PNHP-NY Metro and our work to advance universal, single-payer healthcare this year! Make a one-time contribution here: www.pnhpnymetro.org/eoy_2022donate or become a monthly sustaining donor here: www.pnhpnymetro.org/eoy_2022sustain Even the smallest contribution you can make will go a long way!
Join us on October 18 at 7:30PM for our virtual educational forum: How Private Equity Makes Us Sicker. This forum will address the increasing role and implications of Wall Street investors - Private Equity – in the healthcare industry. Private equity has become a troubling menace as it seeks to extract outsized profits by buying up healthcare providers. Speakers will address what private equity is, how it makes money, and what are its results. These corporate owners focus on cutting costs, increasing prices, and stripping assets to maximize short-term profits — at the expense of providers, patients, workers, communities, and taxpayers. These Wall Street actors also pose an increasing threat to the passage of single-payer healthcare, which has seen a dramatic surge in popularity among patients, healthcare professionals, and the American public more generally. The increased penetration by Wall Street investors into every sector of healthcare has shifted incentives further away from actual care of patients. And, as financial actors increase their control of healthcare services, their political influence against single payer grows too. Our speakers will discuss their decades of research that demonstrates how Wall Street and corporate ownership of healthcare has led to worse healthcare outcomes, more inequitable access for patients, and in moral harm to physicians and other healthcare workers. Closed captions in English will be available. Co-sponsors American Economic Liberties Project https://www.economicliberties.us/ Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/ Center for Economic and Policy Research https://cepr.net/ Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) -Worker Institute https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/worker-institute Long Term Care Community Coalition https://nursinghome411.org Private Equity Stakeholder Project https://pestakeholder.org/ TakeMedicineBack https://takemedicineback.org/
The PNHP-NY September student educational forum will focus on the environmental justice movement in NY and its connection to single payer. For years, environmental justice groups in NY have shed light on how communities of color and low-income communities are disproportionately affected by pollution. This long-standing pattern of environmental racism has led to clear health detriments, such as the childhood asthma crisis in Harlem. In order to create solutions to ingrained systemic issues, we will examine how implementing single payer can emphasize preventative health and alleviate these geographic disparities. This forum will illuminate the shared goals between both movements and explore specific ways in which they can work together to push for policy change. Single payer policy, both federally and on a state-level, needs to be created with the intention of alleviating the existing effects of environmental racism and crafting policies that will fight against it in the future.
Join us Tuesday, May 24th at 7:30pm for an expert presentation on the crisis in abortion access, with a special focus on how advocates for single payer national health insurance, improved Medicare for All, and our state level single payer bill, the New York Health Act, can and must fight for reproductive health justice in general, and – at this critical moment – access to abortion care. Now more than ever, with the Supreme Court poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the rights of birthing people are under attack in this country. PNHP-NY Metro upholds the key components of Reproductive Justice as defined by SisterSong: “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.” Our fight for universal health care must include comprehensive reproductive healthcare for all - including abortion. Abortion is a safe procedure when conducted by skilled professionals; we refuse to go back to those terrible pre-Roe days when women in the U.S. – especially poor women and women of color – were maimed or killed by back-alley abortions. We won’t go back! We will fight back! Come hear how, from experts and activists. Speakers: Linda Prine, MD - Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine David Cohen, JD - Professor of Law, Drexel University Annie Williams - Citizen Activist
Join us THIS THURSDAY May 26 @ 7PM for our free virtual Workshop: Writing Op-Eds & Letters To The Editor for Single-Payer Advocacy All are welcome! RSVP: tinyurl.com/5n8ekfxv #PassNYHealth #MedicareForAll
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