May 2013
April 2013
A Conversation with TIME Magazine's
Steven Brill, author of
"Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us"
Steven Brill
Co-CEO, Journalism Online
Writer, Time, Newsweek, New Yorker,
New York Times Sunday Magazine
Founder, CourtTV and
American Lawyer magazine
Tuesday, May 7th, 7:30 pm
NOT OUR USUAL LOCATION!
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Annenberg Building
1468 Madison Avenue
@ E.100th St., Manhattan
13th floor, Rm 1301
Steven Brill's 36-page cover article for Time magazine exposes hospital billing practices and their contribution to spiraling health care costs, revealing a health care marketplace that places profits over lives.
The piece broke online sales records on Time.com. It generated conversations in hospitals, clinics, classrooms, legislators' offices and living rooms. The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, a single payer supporter, said "this should be a Silent Spring moment for health care," comparing the article to Rachel Carson's book, which was widely credited for galvanizing the contemporary environmental movement.
Come join the conversation.
** If you attended our 4/16 event, you would have received an "Upcoming Events" flyer that listed this talk for 5/14. A scheduling conflict has come up for Mr. Brill and we have to change the event to 5/7 instead. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Free and open to all
April 2013
The 12th Annual Joanne Lukomnik
Forum on Primary Care
Sharing the Care: How Teamwork Can Rescue Primary Care
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013, 7:30
PM
Karen Nelson, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President for Integrated Delivery Systems,
Maimonides Medical Center; Executive Director, Brooklyn Health Home
There is a crisis in primary care in the United States. Only 30%
of physicians are practicing primary care. Financially, primary care phsyciains
earn less than specialists. More important, the work environment has become
toxic for primary care, with an emphasis on through put conflicting with
differing formularies and prior approval criteria from multiple different
insurers. We need to move to a single-payer Medicar-For-All system. Dr. Nelson
will explore how new models of teamwork can make primary care more fun and
sustainable.
Beth Israel’s
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center at
10 Union Square
East (btw 14th & 15th St), 2nd Floor
Auditorium
March 2013
How Corporatization of Medicine Is Changing Clinical Practice: A View from the Front Lines
This forum was recorded, and can be viewed online here.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 7:30 PM
Matthew Anderson, MD, MS
Dept of Family and Social Medicine,
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Co-editor, Social Medicine
Clinical practice today bears little resemblance to the idealized world of the solo practitioner who cared for a community of which he (sic) was an important part. Clinicians are increasingly caught in complex bureaucratic structures whose ends are often those of profit maximization, not health promotion. The essence of clinical work has been redefined from the exercise of professional judgment and responsibility to the efficient execution of specified competencies determined by corporate interests. We will discuss what happens when doctors become workers and the potential role of doctors' unions in this process.
Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center at
10 Union Square East (btw 14th & 15th St), 2nd Floor Auditorium
February 2013
Disaster Relief and Rebuilding:
How Health Professionals Sprang into Action to Meet Health Needs of Hurricane Sandy Survivors
Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 7:30 PM
Recent Forums
Disaster Relief and Rebuilding:
How Health Professionals Sprang into Action to Meet Health Needs of Hurricane Sandy Survivors
Moderator: Danny Lugassy, MD
PNHP-NY Metro
Natasha Anushri Anandaraja, MD/MPH
Mt Sinai Global Health Training Ctr
Matt Krausher, MD/PHD Candidate
RWJMS/Princeton/Rutgers
Trina Maddox, LPN
Action Center of Ocean Bay Apartments
Trina Maddox, LPN
Action Center of Ocean Bay Apartments
Becca Piser, RN
People's Medical Relief
Representative from New York State Nurses Association
“Volunteer groups
like People’s Relief in Coney Island … set up curbside medical clinics and
rallied teams of people to go door to door searching for trapped residents.
They appeared to be better organized than the city.” -The New York Times,
12/9/2012
Doctors, nurses, street
medics and others sprang into action immediately after the devastation of
Hurricane Sandy to provide volunteer medical care to storm survivors. Working
closely with Occupy Sandy and street medics, PNHP-NY Metro helped to create and
coordinate People’s Medical Relief (PMR). We obtained funding ten days after
the storm to sustain and expand PMR’s efforts, including running a number of
basic clinics in the Rockaways and Coney Island for nine weeks and conducting
health education trainings. PMR also took leadership, along with allies like
the New York State Nurses Association, in pressuring governmental agencies to
provide adequate relief as well as to “build back better” to address existing,
gross inadequacies in our local health care infrastructure.
Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center at
10 Union Square East (btw 14th & 15th St), 2nd Floor Auditorium
Free and open to all Co-Sponsor: Urban Studies Dept;, Queens College/CUNY
Free and open to all Co-Sponsor: Urban Studies Dept;, Queens College/CUNY
Recent Forums
The Path to Single Payer: State by State?
The Campaigns in Vermont and New York
James Haslam
Director, Vermont Workers' Center
Len Rodberg, PhD
Research Director, PNHP-NY Metro
Laurie Wen
Executive Director, PNHP-NY Metro
Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 7:30 pm
While single payer
advocates continue to push for an improved Medicare-for-all nationally,
campaigns for state-based single payer systems have gained a lot of momentum in
the last few years. A total of 25 states have introduced such bills at some
point. Last year, Vermont passed a three-part bill aimed to lay a path to
single payer. In New York, the newly revised bill doubled its number of
co-sponsors in the State Senate in just a few months. How are these campaigns
building a base to advocate for single-payer systems both on the state and
national levels?
Beth
Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center at
10 Union
Square East (btw 14th & 15th St), 2nd
Floor Auditorium
Free and open to all Co-Sponsor: Urban Studies Dept;, Queens College/CUNY
Free and open to all Co-Sponsor: Urban Studies Dept;, Queens College/CUNY
October 2012
Threats
to Medicare:
The Election and
Lame Duck Congress
Lame Duck Congress
Dean Baker, PhD
Co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
7:30 PM Forum with Dr. Baker
followed by
9 PM Presidential DebateWatch--it's less depressing watching it together!
Beth Israel's Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East (btw 14th & 15th St.) 2nd Floor Auditorium
Free and open to all
The structure of Medicare
may be put at serious risk following the election. Governor Romney has
explicitly called for turning it into a voucher program. If President Obama is
re-elected, there are also major risks to the program, some of which may arise
as early as the lame duck Congressional session in the fall, if there is an
effort to reach a "grand bargain" on the deficit.
One of the most widely read economists of our generation, Dr. Baker is frequently cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian Unlimited (UK), The Huffington Post and TruthOut.
September 2012
Health Reform 2.0:
For Our Patients or For-Profit
Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, FACP
Co-founder,
Physicians for a National Health Program
Professor,
CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College
David Himmelstein, MD, FACP
Co-founder,
Physicians for a National Health Program
Professor,
CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College
With implementation of the ACA scheduled for 2014, the
corporate takeover of medicine is galloping ahead. The presentation will discuss problems that continue to
bedevil U.S. healthcare, the likely impact of the ACA, and evidence regarding
the accountable care organizations (ACOs) that are widely touted as the next
big thing in medicine. We conclude
that a non-profit, single-payer reform is more urgent than ever, and that the
single payer movement must emphasize a critique of corporate-controlled care.
Beth
Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center at
10 Union
Square East (btw 14th & 15th St), 2nd
Floor Auditorium
Free
and open to all
April 2012
The 11th Annual Joanne Lukomnik Forum on Primary Care
Building Primary Care for All through Social Entrepreneurship
Neil Calman, MD, ABFP, FAAFP
Co-founder, President & CEO, Institute for Family Health
Neil Calman has been a stalwart advocate for primary care since his residency in Family Medicine at the Montefiore Social Medicine Program. He will report on his struggles to establish primary care, particularly among New York’s most needy communities. He describes as social entrepreneurship the innovative strategies developed by his group to confront the overwhelming obstacles to primary care. These efforts to foster primary care shed new light on the promise of a single-payer health care system in the United States.
Tuesday, April 17, 7:30 PM
Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East (btw 14th & 15th St.) 2nd Floor Auditorium
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Co-Sponsor: Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY
March 2012
Victory against Big Insurance:
How Connecticut Threw Private Insurers out of Medicaid
Sheldon Toubman, Esq.
Staff Attorney, New Haven Legal Assistance Association
Discussant: Diane Spicer, Esq.
Supervising Attorney, Community Health Advocates,
Community Service Society of New York
After a determined campaign, health advocates in Connecticut successfully got the state to drop private insurers from its Medicaid program. In February of 2012, Gov. Malloy announced the move as a way to reduce state spending and improve care, having found the existing system to be “overly profit-driven.” Leading the campaign were the New Haven Legal Assistance Association and the Connecticut Health Policy Project.
Find out how it happened from Sheldon Toubman, who led the legal challenge. Join a discussion on this victory's implications for state-based single payer campaigns.
Tuesday, March 20, 7:30 PM
Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East (btw 14th & 15th St.) 2nd Floor Auditorium
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Co-Sponsor: Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY
February 2012
Separate and Unequal:
Medical Apartheid in New York City
Charmaine Ruddock, MS
Project Director, Bronx Health REACH
Shena Elrington, JD
Health Justice Program, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
In 2008, the Bronx Health REACH Coalition filed a civil rights complaint with the New York State Office of the Attorney General alleging that three academic medical centers in New York City discriminated on the basis of payer status and race. The complaint charges that two standards of care are offered—a clinic system for the publicly insured and uninsured, and a faculty practice system for those with private insurance.
Join us for an examination of the institutional policies and practices that contribute to and exacerbate racial disparities in health care in New York City.
Tuesday, February 21, 7:30 PM
Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East (btw 14th & 15th St.) 2nd Floor Auditorium
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
December 2011
Executive Director, American
Public Health Association (APHA)
Wine & Cheese Reception @ 6:30PM
Presentation @ 7:30PM
Tuesday, December 13, 6:30 PM
Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East (btw 14th & 15th St.) 2nd Floor Lecture Hall
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
November 2011
11/22/11 @ 7:30PM
Healthcare for the 99%:
Health professionals' solidarity work with
Occupy Wall Street
Are you one of the 99 nurses, students and doctors who provided flu shots in Zuccotti Park last Sunday? Have you been volunteering at the medical tent and organizing speak-outs? Have you been visiting the park and looking for ways to get more involved, or wondering why so many health professionals are energized and mobilized to support this movement?
Come to this forum to share your experiences and ideas. Join a spirited discussion about the role of health professionals in the OWS movement and implications for the fight for a universal, equitable healthcare system. Leading the conversation:
Matt Anderson, MD, MSc; Social Medicine Portal
Are you one of the 99 nurses, students and doctors who provided flu shots in Zuccotti Park last Sunday? Have you been volunteering at the medical tent and organizing speak-outs? Have you been visiting the park and looking for ways to get more involved, or wondering why so many health professionals are energized and mobilized to support this movement?
Come to this forum to share your experiences and ideas. Join a spirited discussion about the role of health professionals in the OWS movement and implications for the fight for a universal, equitable healthcare system. Leading the conversation:
Matt Anderson, MD, MSc; Social Medicine Portal
Steve Auerbach, MD, MPH, FAAP; PNHP-NY Metro
Bill Jordan, MD; National Physicians Alliance-NY
Mary O’Brien, MD, PNHP-NY Metro
Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! NYC
Sepideh Sedgh, DO, Committee of Interns and Residents
Asiya Tschannerl, MD, MPH, MSc
Representative from National Nurses United
Representative from National Nurses United
Tuesday, November 22, 7:30 PM
Beth Israel’s Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East (btw 14th & 15th St.) 2nd Floor Lecture Hall
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL