Contact your NY State Senator and Assembly Member, WEEKLY and urge them to #PassNYHealth. Click to connect below.
Send a message to Leaders Stewart-Cousins & Heastie here and to Governor Hochul here too.
Recruit your friends, family and neighbors to join you. Make the NY Health Act a matter your lawmakers cannot ignore any longer. 

What should you say? Sample scripts are provided - click to call or email now!
🍎 If they are not a cosponsor of the New York Health Act, urge them to sign on now. Cosponsors are linked below!
🍎 If they're already a cosponsor, there is always more they can do to help pass this lifesaving legislation! Ask what they are doing this week to educate their constituents and to advocate for it with their colleagues and leadership.

The New York Health Act is the clear solution to the healthcare affordability crisis crushing New Yorkers and to the segregation and inequity baked into our current profit-centered healthcare system. New York must create an equitable system that treats healthcare as a right for all, not a commodity reserved for the privileged and lucky or as a perk of employment.

WHO COSPONSORS THE NEW YORK HEALTH ACT?

Check the NY Health Act TRACKER: bit.ly/TRACKNYHA

Union support is essential in the efforts to pass the New York Health Act. Lawmakers listen to labor leaders and public sector unions in particular hold a lot of political power. While many unions such as the NY State Nurses Association, 1199 SEIU, and UAW are strong advocates and supporters of the NY Health Act, our elected officials say they need to hear more. Union members must work from within their unions to bring more of them over to supporting the bill.

Below is a list of resources for rank & file union members.

Take Action

• Sign the Open Letter to Labor Leaders & Lawmakers to #PassNYHealth
• Contact Tool: Urge your NYS Senator & Assembly Member to #PassNYHealth - call, email or tweet

Flyers

• Labor Union Flyer (English)
• Labor Union Flyer (Spanish)
• Half-sheet & ink-friendly Labor Union Flyers for printing here

Fact Sheets

• Response to UFT Unity Caucus attack on the NY Health Act, May 2025
• Detailed Explainer of the NY Health Act Legislation Provision

General Info About the NY Health Act available here.

Cross-Union Labor Groups Organizing to #PassNYHealth

• CROC: Cross Union Retiree Organizing Committee
• Labor Activists For NY Health Google Group Listserv
• Rank+File4NYHealth - Linktree | Google Group Listserv | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Gmail

TAKE ACTION TODAY: CLICK HERE to urge your NY lawmakers & leadership to #PassNYHealth - and request a speaker, sign our petitions, endorse, and more HERE!
Info, videos + resources below!

New York Health Act Basics 

• What is the New York health Act?
  • The New York Health Act (A1466/S3425) is state single payer legislation that will provide comprehensive, universal healthcare for everyone who lives -or works- full time in New York, replacing existing private insurance company coverage. You and your healthcare providers determine the care you need. New York Health pays the bill. This plan is similar to Medicare — but far better because it provides comprehensive care, including dental, mental, hearing, gender-affirming & Long Term Care, and truly covers everyone, including undocumented immigrants.

    With the New York Health Act, ALL New Yorkers will automatically have their healthcare covered by a public statewide fund, regardless of age, employment, immigration status, disability, race, gender, or financial means. Everyone will have free healthcare the way everyone is covered by our public fire department, libraries, and schools – public services provided without ever having to worry about a bill or medical debt.

    Our campaign has dramatically increased support for the bill, passing it in the Assembly in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. In 2022, we achieved majority support in Albany and we continue to have a majority of NYS Senator and Assembly Member co-sponsors.
• Bill text in full is here.
  
• Bill text, bill numbers, committee status, and current cosponsors in the NY Senate here and NY Assembly here.
• Current bill numbers for the 2025-2026 term A1466 / S3425.
• Key Points About The NY Health Act here.
• Visit the Campaign for New York Health www.nyhcampaign.org
  
• Watch & share the PIISD explainer video & more below.

FAQ about the NY Health Act - Get Answers Here

Q&A with author of the bill, Richard Gottfried!

Still have questions about the NY Health Act? Ask the author of the bill!
How to contact retired Assembly Health Committee Chair, Dick Gottfried:

• • Step 1: Review the FAQ, Resources & Reports listed on this page including the Fact Sheets linked at the bottom of this page.
  • Step 2: If none address your questions, ask your questions here.
  • Step 3: Get your answers here!

ORGANIZING RESOURCES for the NY Health Act

• Take Action Tool for contacting lawmakers - Use & Share: bit.ly/Action4NYHA
• Join our NY Health Act Working Group: State Legislative Advocacy Working Group (SLAWG)
  You do NOT have to be a healthcare worker to organize with us! Sign up here.
• Social Media - Find & follow us for current actions:
  • Linktree | Bluesky | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
  • WhatsApp NYHealthAct Community & Subgroups
  • Social Media Toolkit
• Share Your Healthcare Story! Story Share Guide
• Sign & share the Doctors Petition to #PassNYHealth
• Flyers / Handouts / One-Pagers
  • Healthcare Affordability Crisis Flyer
  • Insurers Profit Flyer - General Purpose NY Health Act Flyer (double-sided half-sheet)
  • Labor Union Flyer (English) & Labor Union Flyer (Spanish)
    • Half-sheet & ink-friendly Labor Union Flyers for printing here.
  • Fact Sheet One Pagers (click to jump to list at bottom of this page)
• Resolutions
  • Guide to Pass a Local Resolution is here. 
  • NYC Council Resolution, 2018

REPORTS

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Economic Analyses of the New York Health Act

• • Economic Analysis of the New York Health Act, Rodberg, Updated 2021:
    Summary here. Full report here.
  • RAND Study of New York Health Act, 2018: here
  • Friedman Analysis of the New York Health Act, Gerald Friedman, 2015: here.
  • 2026 White Paper: Fiscal Impacts of the New York Health Act on Counties, Municipalities, and School Districts; here.
  • County Tax Savings of the New York Health Act is here.

Reports on the New York Health Act

• • Healthcare and Racial Justice: Systemic Change Is Needed for a More Equitable Health System
    • Released April 4, 2022 by the Campaign for NY Health and the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus
      
    • Report available here and Executive Summary here.
  • From Coverage to Care: A People's Report on Healthcare in New York State
    • Released in 2019
    • Report available here and Executive Summary here.

VIDEOS

HEALTHCARE CONSPIRACY mockumentary short film featuring cameos by Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, Senator Jabari Brisport, retired Assembly Member Richard Gottfried, Cynthia Nixon, and MORE. Also available here.
More about the film here: www.healthcareconspiracy.com

PIISD Video Explainer Animation
Also available here.

A Burning Question: What if fighting fires was for-profit, like our healthcare?
Also available here.

WEBINARS

Below: New York Health Act Town Hall, January 2024, with Dr. Betty Kolod, Assembly Member Dick Gottfried, and MORE-UFT leaders

More webinars are available on PNHP NY Metro's Vimeo Channel, and PNHP NY metro's YouTube Channel

More Films & Documentaries

FIX IT: Healthcare at the Tipping Point
Watch a powerful documentary that reaches across the political and ideological divide to expand support for major healthcare reform.

Why We Need The NY Health Act
4-minute play by Roberta Pikser

FACT SHEETS

Archived Presentations
Past Forums

The New York Health Act is legislation in New York State that, if passed, will create a universal, single-payer healthcare program that will cover ALL New Yorkers and eliminate co-pays, deductibles, and skyrocketing premiums.
CLICK HERE for Info & Organizing Resources. Take action below!.

How can you help? 
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Send A Weekly #WakeUpCall4NYHA to #PassNYHealth!

Contact your NYS Senator and Assembly Member and leadership WEEKLY. Urge them to cosponsor if they have not. If they are a cosponsor, ask what they are doing this week to educate their constituents and colleagues, and how they are working to pass the bill.

Sign the Doctors Petition

All future, current and retired physicians, resident physicians and medical students are encouraged to sign our Doctors Petition to illustrate the scale of physician support for the New York Health Act.

Sign the Everybody In Petition

Your help is essential in building the mass movement needed to show the legislature that New Yorkers are unified in our demand for a universal, single-payer plan for New York State.

Union Members: Sign the Rank+File Open Letter to Union & Legislative Leaders

All rank & file union members, current and retired, are invited to add your nam to the open letter urging union leadership & New York state lawmakers to endorse and work to pass the New York Health Act now.

Endorse for Your Organization, Business, or as a Faith Leader

Send a strong message to Albany that we are serious about making healthcare a right in New York State!

Join Our State Legislative Advocacy Working Group (SLAWG)

You, your family, and community members are the key to winning the NY Health Act! Join SLAWG & our other working groups to participate in organizing to pass the NY Health Act. No experience needed and all are welcome. 

Request a Speaker

PNHP NY Metro provides expert speakers to discuss the NY Health Act at all types of events, in person or on Zoom.

NYS Additional Legislative Priorities

Learn More & Take Action

CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR TICKETS!

CURRENT + UPCOMING EVENTS:

In chronological order

NEW MEMBER INTEREST MEETUPS

Monthly 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 PNHP NY Metro Student Fellow Cameron Clarke's speech at the 2026 May Day Rally: We Won't Be Silent

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

Sign up here for our email list for announcements
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!

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.