CURRENT + UPCOMING EVENTS:
CLICK HERE FOR THE RECAP & RECORDING OF OUR
2024 BENEFIT CELEBRATING SINGLE PAYER CHAMPIONS!
In chronological order:
LABOR-LED
NEW YORK HEALTH ACT TOWN HALL:
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 Schwartzberg: Past Executive Vice President of Local 768, Health Services Employees DC 37 AFSCME, and Past Chair of the Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee, DC 37 AFSCME; and Founder and Chair of the Cross-Union Retirees Organizing Committee (CROC)
SEPTEMBER VIRTUAL FORUM:
The 2024 Election and the
Fight to Protect and Improve
Public Medicare and Medicaid
On The Path to Healthcare for All
Please RSVP HERE & check back here or keep an eye on your email for updates. If you haven't yet, you can sign up here to receive our email announcements.
Please RSVP now 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.
Our panel 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.
FEATURED SPEAKERS:
Rachel Madley, PhD is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Center for Health and Democracy. She previously worked as health policy advisor to Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and in the legislative affairs office at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Rachel received her PhD from Columbia University where she was also a member of Students for a National Health Program and Physicians for a National Health Program.
Leo Cuello, JD is Research Professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families (CCF). Leo has worked on Medicaid law and policy for the past two decades most recently as the Health Policy Director of the National Health Law Program, including litigation that stopped harmful Medicaid policies during the Trump administration.
Claudia Fegan, MD, CHCQM, FACP is the Past President and current National Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program which includes the Heal Medicare campaign. Dr. Fegan is the Chief Medical Officer for Cook County Health where she provides executive oversight for the health system's medical practices and helps inform health policy initiatives.
Bailey Reavis is the Manager of Government Affairs for Families USA where she works to lower prescription drug prices and improve affordability and access to oral health coverage, as well as helping implement the organization’s work with federal policymakers and key national partners on all of Families USA’s program areas.
New York Health Act Town Hall
Saturday, September 21
On Saturday September 21st, from 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, a Town Hall on health care will be held at Hostos Community College to discuss the New York Health Act (S7590/A 7897). All are welcome and we hope you can make it to discuss this important legislation!
Featured Panelists Include:
Flandersia Jones, RN, Board Member of New York State Nurses AssociationSaturday, September 21
Doors open 10:30 / Program begins at 11AM
Hostos Community College
500 Grand Concourse, Bronx NY
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN
Universal Healthcare Legislative Advocacy Fellowship
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN for our 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.
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Recent Online Educational Forums
CLICK HERE for videos and information related to our past forums:
- 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) is a single-issue organization advocating 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.