CURRENT + UPCOMING EVENTS:

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SPRING 2025

Health Justice Potluck Picnic

VIRTUAL MAY FORUM

The Corporate Takeover of Medicine vs The Law

Tuesday, May 20 at 7:30PM via Zoom
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The AMA was against the corporatization of medical practices in the nineteenth century, so states passed Clinical Practice of Medicine (CPOM) Laws that prohibited unlicensed lay corporations from owning, employing, or controlling medical practices. Yet these doctrines have proven ineffective at stopping the corporatization of physician practices in its current form.

There is increasing concern over corporatization and consolidation eroding physician autonomy, clinical independence, morale, and professionalism, and its adverse effect on patient care. States are looking at ways to strengthen this old legal tool to protect physicians and the physician-patient relationship. Professor Erin Fuse Brown will discuss these doctrines and how states must strengthen them to address contemporary forms of corporate control.

The American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group (AAEM PG) actually sued Envision, a private equity company that had taken over emergency rooms in California, seriously affecting patient care and physician autonomy; their case was rooted in the state CPOM Law.

Dr. Mark Reitman will discuss “AAEM PG versus Envision CPOM Litigation”, a case that demonstrates how instituting the CPOM doctrine can be an important tool to prevent the corporatization of medicine, maintain physician autonomy and improve patient care.

Speakers:

Erin Fuse Brown, JD, MPH; Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice; Center for Advancing Health Policy Through Research, School of Public Health, Brown University

Mark Reiter, MD, MBA; Professor & Director of the University of Tennessee-Murfreesboro/Nashville Emergency Medicine Program, CEO of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group (AAEM PG)

Moderators:

Cheryl L Kunis, MD, MS, Clinical Professor of Medicine Emerita, Columbia University, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Chair of National Issues Working Group, PNHP NY Metro Chapter

Richard Gottfried, JD, Former NYS Assembly Member and Assembly Health Committee Chair, Author of the New York Health Act, Board Member, PNHP NY Metro Chapter

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Watch Dr. Roona Ray's speech at the 2025 NYC May Day Rally to Stop the Billionaire Takeover

Watch our Press Conference from our 2025 Lobby Day to #PassNYHealth!

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• 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
• March 2024 Forum: New York Health Act Town Hall Lobby Prep
  
• February 2024 Forum: Community Care in Crisis: NYC Hospital Closures & Consolidation
• 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.