CURRENT + UPCOMING EVENTS:
In chronological order:
Medical Student Workshop APRIL 28 on Zoom
Building Power Under Trump
Join Students for a National Healthcare Program (SNaHP) and Physicians for a National Healthcare Program NY-Metro on Monday, April 28th, 6-7:30PM on Zoom to strategize on how to build power under the Trump administration.
We'll go over Trump administration changes to health policy, then student organizers from the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) will join us to discuss how healthcare trainees and workers can fight back through medical societies.
RSVP: bit.ly/medstudentpower
MAY DAY NYC
Rally at City Hall with the
Coalition to Fight for our Health and Lives
Join us in-person at NYC City Hall for a demonstration organized by Coalition to Fight for our Health and Lives on May Day - May 1 at noon, calling on City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to 1. Abolish the 24-hour workday 2. Fight for quality healthcare for all 3. Stop displacement
Public meeting to prepare, this Sunday, 3pm at 68 Ludlow St (Seward Park High School cafeteria)followed by an Art Build at 4:30pm. Flyer is here.
MAY DAY NYC
HEALTHCARE BLOC
Join our MAY DAY NYC - HEALTHCARE BLOC
Thursday May 1st @ 5pm
Meet us at the Story Corp booth at 5PM VIEW MEETUP LOCATION MAP HERE.
VIEW MARCH ROUTE HERE
RSVP + INFO: bit.ly/MAYDAYNYC2025
SIGN UP HERE to join our HEALTHCARE CONTINGENT to Rally & March at a mass May Day mobilization with unions and community organizations in Foley Square at 5PM to fight back against the billionaire agenda!
Let us know if you will volunteer during the rally to help hand out flyers explaining the benefits of the NY Health Act for workers and their unions & urge them to take action in support! Marshals are also needed, sign up here to join that team & to get information on trainings.
LOOK FOR OUR HEALTHCARE CONTINGENT IN FOLEY SQUARE
- Meet us at the Story Corp booth at 5PM - VIEW MAP HERE
- Healthcare workers, wear your scrubs & white coats!
- Union members, wear your union swag!
- Activists, wear red or your #NYHealthAct #MedicareForAll swag!
- Your own banners & signs are welcome!
- Post to social media using #MayDay2025NYC & #MayDay2025
GET READY!
- Know your rights! Check out Make the Road's new resource with protestor tips & Deportation Defense Manual, in English and Spanish: weprotectusny.org
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Join an ART-BUILD to make banners & signs!
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Healthcare sign messaging suggestions:
- Workers say no cuts to healthcare, no cuts to public health programs, agencies, infrastructure or staff! No attacks on our immigrant, LGBTQIA+, disabled & senior community members!
- Workers demand single payer, universal healthcare to provide comprehensive healthcare for all regardless of employment, citizenship, disability, race, age, gender, income or any other status! One healthcare program, One fight, All workers must unite! No more exploitation of patients for corporate and billionaire profits!
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Monday, April 28th: Art Build with DSA Sign-up
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Monday, April 28th: NYIC & La Colmena Art Build Monday night. Address will be shared upon RSVP. Flier is here. RSVP here.
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Tuesday, April 29th 5-7:30 pm, Downtown Artbuild with Federal Workers. RSVP here
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2025 & Wednesday, April 30th (various shifts), Public Art Builds - Building Stories Studio, 1 12th Street Gowanus, Brooklyn. RSVP here.
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Healthcare sign messaging suggestions:
- Online Security Essentials Checklist
(LIST IN FORMATION, more info in the RSVP form)
Physicians for a National Health Program - NY Metro Chapter
Campaign for New York Health
Doctors Council SEIU
Lower Hudson Valley Democratic Socialists of America
New York Doctors Coalition
NYC Against Segregated Healthcare (NYCASH)
Peace Action of Staten Island
Radical Elders
Rank+File4NYHealth
Students for a National Healthcare Program
Full NYC May Day Coalition pictured above!
NEW MEMBER INTEREST MEETUPS
DATE / TIME: Monthly 2nd Thursday @ 7pm - unless otherwise announced
On Zoom - RSVP: bit.ly/MemberInterestPNHP
If you are new to PNHP NY Metro or have been a supporter for some time and want to get involved in the work of our Chapter, we invite you to attend a Member Interest Meetup! Open to all - you do not need to be a physician or healthcare worker to join in our organizing.
Watch our Press Conference from our 2025 Lobby Day to #PassNYHealth!
UPCOMING FORUMS TBA ABOVE!
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on upcoming forum dates, topics and more!
Learn more about the New York Health Act here after watching the PIISD video below!
Fed up with for-profit healthcare?
Join our #MedStoryMonday campaign featuring stories from health workers, students and patients in support of the NY Health Act & Medicare for All!
Physicians, nurses, midwives, dentists, residents, public health workers and students, medical students, doulas, home care workers: we want to hear from you!
CLICK HERE for examples and CLICK HERE to share your story today to be featured in a #MedStoryMonday quotegraphic!
Recent Online Educational Forums
CLICK HERE for videos and information related to our past forums:
- October 2024 Forum: Segregation in Healthcare
- September 2024 Forum: The 2024 Election and the Fight to Protect and Improve Public Medicare and Medicaid On The Path to Healthcare for All
- May 2024 Forum: On The Rise: Doctors Unionizing & Organizing for Single Payer
- April 2024 Forum: All Means All: Coverage for Immigrants and the Fight for Universal Healthcare
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March 2024 Forum: New York Health Act Town Hall Lobby Prep
- February 2024 Forum: Community Care in Crisis: NYC Hospital Closures & Consolidation
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January 2024 Forum: New York Health Act Town Hall
- October 2023 Forum: Educate, Liberate, Elevate: Youth Justice Through Healthcare
- September 2023 Forum: Organizing to Build Support for the NEW New York Health Act
- May 2023 Forum: The Fight for LGBTQIA+ Rights and the Struggle to Expand and Guarantee Care for Every Body
- April 2023 Forum: Film & Forum: American Hospitals
- March 2023 Forum: The NY Health Act + Our 2023 Health Policy Package: Preparing for Lobby Day
- February 2023 Forum: Delivering Birth Justice: Why is giving birth in the US so dangerous and costly, and what can we do about it?
- January 2023 Forum: New Year, Renewed Resolve: Building the Local and National Movement for Healthcare for All
- December 2022: A Celebration of Assemblymember Richard Gottfried & the New York Health Act
- November 2022: Indigenous Peoples’ Health: Inequities, Innovations & Lessons
- October 2022: NYC Administrative Code 12-126: What is it and what would Amending it Mean for NYC Public Employees?
- October 2022: How Private Equity Makes US Sicker
- September 2022: Environmental Justice is Health Justice: Exploring the Relationship between Environmental Health Advocacy and Single Payer
- May 2022: There is NO Health Care Justice without Abortion and Repro Health Justice!
- April 2022: Legislative Focus: NY Health Act and Ending Medical Debt - Preparing for Lobby Day
- March 2022: Why US Prescription Drug Prices are Too High... and How to Treat It
- February 2022: Privatizing Medicare Part II: How it Really Works
- January 2022: Privatizing Medicare: Impacts on Patients and Doctors
- November 2021: Single Payer: Everyone Has a Role to Play
- September 2021: Activism as a Health Professional Student: Finding Ways to Join Local Efforts
- June 2021: NYC Plans for Medicare Advantage
- May 2021: Substance Use and Single Payer: Connecting the Dots
- April 2021: Why Hospitals & the People They Serve Should Support Single Payer & the NY Health Act
- March 2021: Achieving Healthcare for All: The NY Health Act for a Just COVID Recovery
- February 2021: Invest In Our New York: Education, Housing, Food, Jobs, & Health
- January 2021: Unequal Treatment: The Unjust Death of Dr. Susan Moore
- November 2020: COVID-19, Long-Term Care, Single-Payer & the Elections
- June 2020: COVID Capitalism and the Fight for Health Care Justice and Societal Transformation
- May 2020: Combatting COVID & Building Resilience: Health, Jobs, & Homes
- April 2020: The Roles of Racism & For-Profit Healthcare in Pandemic Response Failures
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) advocates for a universal, comprehensive single-payer national health program. PNHP has 22,000 members and over 50 chapters across the United States.
Since 1987, we've advocated for reform in the U.S. health care system. We educate physicians and other health professionals about the benefits of a single-payer system--including fewer administrative costs and affording health insurance for the 30 million Americans who have none.
Our members and physician activists work toward a single-payer national health program in their communities. PNHP performs ground breaking research on the health crisis and the need for fundamental reform, coordinates speakers and forums, participates in town hall meetings and debates, contributes scholarly articles to peer-reviewed medical journals, and appears regularly on national television and news programs advocating for a single-payer system.
PNHP is the only national physician organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to implementing a single-payer national health program.