TAKE ACTION TODAY: CICK HERE to urge your NY lawmakers & leadership to #PassNYHealth - the New York Health Act (A1466/S3425).

New York Health Act Basics

• Read the full bill text here.
  
• Find the bill text, bill numbers, committee status, and current cosponsors in the NY Senate here and NY Assembly here.
• The bill was reintroduced for the 2025-2026 term with the updated numbers (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 below.

Organizing Resources for the NY Health Act

• Take Action Contact Tool - Use & Share: bit.ly/Action4NYHA
• Find & follow us for current actions:
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• Join our WhatsApp NYHealthAct Community & Subgroups
• Social Media Toolkit
• Story Share Guide
• Flyers / Handouts / One-Pagers
  • Insurers Profit - 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 here.
• Q&A about the NY Health Act with author of the bill, retired Assembly Member Richard Gottfried
  • Step 1: Review the Resources & Reports here & 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!

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.

Economic Analysis of the New York Health Act

• Analysis of the Economics of the New York Health Act, Rodberg, Updated 2021: Summary is here. Full report is here
• RAND study of New York Health Act, 2018: here
• Analysis of the New York Health Act, Friedman, 2015: here

Videos

Watch the new HEATHCARE CONSPIRACY mockumentary short film here: www.healthcareconspiracy.com

PIISD Video Explainer Animation

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

Webinars

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

Below: National Health Insurance: A Post-Election Grand Rounds Webinar (2017) by Ed Weisbart, MD, Chair PNHP - MO

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

CURRENT + UPCOMING EVENTS:

In chronological order:

MARCH 18 2025

Healthcare Worker, Trainee,
Student & Advocate
Lobby Day to #PassNYHealth!

Passing the New York Health Act (A1466/S3425) is more urgent than ever.
Our state lawmakers must act, without any further delay, to protect New Yorkers from exploitation by insurance and pharma corporations for profit, and from attacks on our healthcare at the federal level.

RSVP HERE for both events:

Cosponsoring Organizations:
Physicians for a National Health Program - NY Metro Chapter
ACT UP
Ancient Song Doula Services
Caring Majority Rising
Citizen Action
Community Service Society of New York
Cross-Union Retirees Organizing Committee (CROC)
Doctors Council SEIU
For The Many
Green Party of New York
Hudson Valley Demands NY Health
Indivisible Brooklyn
Indivisible: CCoHope Indivisible
Indivisible: Northwest Bronx Indivisible
Indivisible: NYCD15/16-Indivisible
Indivisible Ulster 18/19
Long Island DSA
Medical Students for Choice
Metro New York Healthcare for All Campaign
National Association of Social Workers NYS/NYC
New York Doctors Coalition
New York Progressive Action Network
New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG)
New York State Academy of Family Physicians
NYC Against Segregated Care (NYCASH)
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition
Rank+File4NYHealth
Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore
South Asian Fund For Education, Scholarship, and Training, Inc
Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP)
SUNY Empire State University Student Government Association
Ulster Activists

MARCH 15 2025

HEALTHCARE CONTINGENT
March To Stop The Cuts

March with us on March 15 in the HEALTHCARE CONTINGENT at the March To Stop The Cuts!
Additional contingent anchoring organizations are welcome, sign up at the link.
Sign up: bit.ly/HealthcareMarch15

DATE: Saturday, March 15th
10:30AM: Contingent Meetup Spot @ the Story Corp shed in Foley Square (across from the NY County Supreme Court at the intersection of Centre St & Pearl St)
11:00AM MARCH Kicks Off!

We say:

• Healthcare should be provided as a human right for all, regardless of citizenship, employment, gender, age, health, care needs, ability to pay, or any other status.
• NO CUTS to working people to fund tax breaks for billionaires and corporations
• NO CUTS to our public healthcare programs Medicare & Medicaid
• NO CUTS to USAID, HHS, CDC, PEPFAR, NIH, FDA
• NO CUTS to gender-affirming care, immigrant care, disability care, accessibility, research, or diversity, equity & inclusion initiatives

Healthcare workers wear your scrubs & white coats!
Your own banners & signs are welcome! There will be a die-in at the end of the march so tombstone-signs are recommended.
Art-build info in the sign-up form description.

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
• 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.