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

PNHP-NY Metro's 2023 Legislative Package

The legislation below represents the primary focuses of PNHP-NY Metro's lobbying efforts during the 2023 legislative session in New York.

Summary of Legislation: Take action by clicking on the bill names.

✅New York Health Act (S7590 / A07897) will establish a single-payer universal healthcare system in New York state that will guarantee comprehensive care for all residents and workers, regardless of employment, immigration status or ability to pay!

✅Reproductive Freedom & Equity Act (A00361A / S00348B) will establish a fund to cover the cost of abortion —as well as traveling expenses and childcare costs—for low-income New Yorkers and people coming from out of state. Has already passed the state senate!

✅Coverage 4 All (A3020 / S2237) will create a state-funded Essential Plan for ALL New Yorkers up to 200% of the federal poverty level, regardless of immigration status, by including undocumented immigrants in the state’s application for the 1332 waiver. Submit comments in support of Coverage 4 All.

✅Indigent Care Pool (2023 bill numbers pending) will redistribute public funding to protect true safety-net hospitals providing health care for low-income, people with disabilities, and communities of color.

✅End Medical Debt package: Ounce of Prevention Act (A6027 / S1366) requires all hospitals to use a uniform application form and policy and relates to distribution of funds from the general hospital indigent care pool, and Fair Medical Debt Reporting (A6275 / S4907) prohibits medical debt from being collected by a consumer reporting agency or included in a consumer report.

✅Fair Pay for Home Care would leave room in the budget for home health workers to make 150% of the minimum wage. New York has a home health care shortage and ensuring liveable wages for these highly skilled professionals is the first step to address this.

✅Protect Telemedicine Abortion Across State Lines (S1066A / A1079A) will shield clinicians and pharmacists throughout the state from: prosecution, loss of license or malpractice, and from subpoenas of their medical records for prescribing and sending of abortion pills to people who need them.

Join or renew your membership to PNHP before December 2nd, and you will be entered in a sweepstakes to win one of 10 available copies of the gripping book, The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America’s Health Care System, by medical expert and skilled storyteller Dr. David Barton Smith.

As Dr. Jack Geiger, Logan Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine at CUNY Medical School, explains, “The Power to Heal brings to life the neglected history of one of the greatest victories of the civil rights struggles—the successful confrontation with the institutional racism and racial segregation long entrenched in America’s hospitals, north as well as south, that had relegated African American patients to basement wards and inferior treatment.”

Why join PNHP? Hear from members about why membership is important to them:

PNHP is an organization funded by its members. We accept no corporate contributions of any kind. Our small staff and all activities are supported by members’ dues, individual contributions, and above all, the hands-on activities of our members.

All are welcome to join.You don't need to be a physician — nurses, public health professionals, social workers and concerned individuals who support single-payer health care are active and valued members of our organization. 

We look forward to welcoming you to our organization and working together to win an improved Medicare for All system. 

Join or renew your membership to PNHP before October 1st, and you will be entered in a sweepstakes to win two free tickets to Michael Moore's new Broadway Show The Terms of My Surrender. 

The New York Times called it "one of the 5 must see shows on Broadway" right now.

Michael Moore's film SiCKO made a huge impact on the movement for guaranteed health care. He's always been a friend to our cause, and we are thrilled that he has offered PNHP membership this opportunity. If you don't win the raffle, you'll still receive a discount code once the winner is drawn. 

Why join PNHP? Hear from PNHP members about why membership is so important to them:

PNHP is an organization funded by its members. We accept no corporate contributions of any kind. Our small staff and all activities are supported by members’ dues, individual contributions, and above all, the hands-on activities of our members.

All are welcome to join. You don't need to be a physician to join — nurses, public health professionals, social workers and concerned individuals who support single-payer health care are active and valued members of our organization. 

We look forward to welcoming you to our organization and working together to win an improved Medicare for All system. 

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

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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!

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.