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You are invited!

Select your tickets below to JOIN US for our annual gathering to celebrate our champions, collective work and community in the fight to guarantee healthcare as a human right. The evening will feature live music, a light buffet and refreshments, recognition of our health justice champions and community activists, our silent auction + great company and conversation. — Scroll down to get your tickets today!

PNHP NY Metro's Annual Spring 2026 Benefit
Celebrating Single Payer Champions!

WHEN
May 28, 2026 at 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Doors open at 5:30pm, Program begins at 6:00pm

WHERE
Judson Memorial Church: 55 Washington Square South (3rd Floor Meeting Room) NYC - Map here
Wheelchair accessible, ADA Entrance: 243 Thompson Street
Note: Elevator has a strict 2-person weight limit.

CLICK HERE TO MEET OUR HONOREES: Dr. Alec Pruchnicki, Dr. Julie Wegener, Our Bronx, and more!

We look forward to toasting our 2026 Single Payer Champions with you all!

PURCHASE AN AD: Click here to purchase an ad in our digital program to congratulate one or more of our honorees on behalf of yourself or an organization, or feature info about your organization or a call to action.

SEE A SNEAK PEEK OF OUR SILENT AUCTION HERE- BIDDING IN-PERSON ONLY
DONATE TO OUR AUCTION: Click here to contribute an item or experience to our silent auction!

CAN'T COME? CONTRIBUTE INSTEAD: Click here.

TICKET OPTIONS:

Contributions of $250 or more include membership in national PNHP!

VIRTUAL TICKETS - CLICK HERE

If you cannot attend in-person and would like to join by Zoom or if you want to make a fully tax-deductible contribution in support, please CLICK HERE to purchase a virtual ticket!
All virtual ticket buyers will be emailed a Zoom link to livestream the awards presentation.
Sponsored Free Tickets: To request a free, sponsored ticket for virtual attendance please fill out this form.

IN-PERSON TICKETS - SCROLL DOWN

Scroll down to purchase your In-Person ticket OR choose from these options:
Sliding Scale Tickets: To purchase a ticket for an amount not listed below please click here & contribute what you can to help support the movement for single payer! $25 suggested donation.
Sponsored Free Tickets: To request a free, sponsored ticket for in-person attendance please fill out this form.
Volunteers: please fill out this form.

Checks Welcome: To make a fully tax deductible contribution or to purchase tickets via check, please include a note with the check, stating: 1. the number of tickets being purchased, and 2. the full names of each person that we should include on our list at the door.

Make checks payable to PNHP - NY Metro and mail to: PNHP-NY Metro, PO Box 352, New York, NY 10028

Questions? Contact: Morgan Moore: [email protected] · 646-866-7671

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.