Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) - NY Metro Chapter

04/16/2026

Cameron - 4th year medical student, fellow & leader in - speaking out today 4/16 in solidarity with hunger striking home care workers at their kickoff. They are now sitting in 24/7 at City Hall NYC demanding an end to harmful 24 hour work shifts.
Sign up for a time slot or stop by Murray St & Broadway to support. More info at nomore24 dot org.

And join our united fight to to ensure patients get all the care they need including Long Term Care/Hone Care, without cost or other barriers, AND that home care workers are treated humanely, compensated fairly and get the care that they themselves need!

04/16/2026

LIQUID HANDCUFFS Book Talk with author Helen Redmond & panel discussion including Dr. Betty Kolod, Board Chair of PNHP NY Metro
Thursday April 16 @ 6:30pm at P.I.T. 411 S. Fifth Street Brooklyn, NY

04/15/2026

RSVP required: https://bit.ly/April28CCNY
New York Health Act Town Hall with NYPIRG CCNY

Community members, healthcare advocates, and students will gather at the City College of New York for a town hall discussion on the New York Health Act, proposed legislation to establish a universal, single-payer healthcare system in New York State.

This town hall will provide an opportunity for attendees to learn about the bill, ask questions, and engage directly with advocates and experts about how the legislation would impact residents across the state.

Date: Thursday April 23rd
Time: 5:30pm - 8pm
Doors Open 5:15pm
Location: The City College of New York, 160 Convent Ave, 10031, New York, NY,
North Academic Center 1/103 Flex Space

04/13/2026

“Behind every one of the 1,500 uninsured patients we see each year at the free clinic is a story — and a system that failed them. Let’s build one that doesn’t. for universal, single-payer healthcare!”

Contact your legislators: www.bit.ly/Action4NYHA

"As outreach officers for ECHO Free Clinic, we’ve connected with Bronx residents who have gone decades without health care, forced to make the impossible choice between groceries, rent, or a doctor’s visit. The Saturday free clinic ends up being their lifeline in the midst of a broken, segregated, and complex healthcare system.

We dream of a New York where free clinics are relics of the past – where a single working mother doesn’t delay her mammogram to continue supporting her child, where an uncle with diabetes doesn’t ration his insulin to simply make it through the month, where a union worker with a disability gets the long-term care they need without going into debt, where health is a right guaranteed to every person who calls this state home."

-Evan & Anuva, medical students, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Students for a National Health Program

Share your story: www.bit.ly/MedStoryMonday

04/13/2026

“No patient - especially one awaiting a lung transplant - should lose access to essential medication because of cost or insurance barriers. That’s why it is so important that we support the New York Health Act, because your life shouldn’t depend on your insurance.”

This is from Dr. Alex Lê, an internal medicine physician in the Bronx, and a member of the largest and oldest health worker union - Committee of Interns and Residents - SEIU.

Contact your New York State legislators: www.bit.ly/Action4NYHA

The NY Health Act is a bill in the NYS Legislature that has majority support in both the State Senate and the State Aseembly! They need to hear from YOU that universal healthcare under the NY Health Act is a priority for you and your community.

The NY Health Act is universal, single-payer healthcare for EVERY New Yorker regardless of immigration, employment, marital, income or any other status.

Economic studies show NYHA saves at least 90% of New Yorkers money - no more choosing between groceries and rent or healthcare and medications. No more co-pays, deductibles, insurance premiums or out-of-pockets costs. No more surprise bills. No more denials.

Share your story. How would guaranteed healthcare change your life?: www.bit.ly/MedStoryMonday

Let’s win this together!

04/11/2026

This Tuesday!

Join PNHP NY Metro for our Mass Grassroots Organizing Call to this Tuesday April 14 from 7:30-9PM!
RSVP: bit.ly/MASSCALL14
All are welcome, you don’t need to be a health worker to join.

04/04/2026

Join PNHP NY Metro for our Mass Grassroots Organizing Call to on Tuesday April 14 from 7:30-9PM!
RSVP: bit.ly/MASSCALL14
All are welcome, you don’t need to be a health worker to join.

04/02/2026

Mariana Pineda 1979-2026 leaves behind a legacy of fighting for a better world. Listen to her.

Let Mariana's premature death be the spark you need to finally so no one else suffers & struggles to get care the way she did

Her union job as a public school teacher did not protect her.

When you get too sick to work and lose your job you should not also lose your healthcare and your home.

You should not have to fight an insurance company hoarding hundreds of billions in profits for the care you need.

You should not have to fight against federal cuts to public healthcare funding while your own health is failing.

Your healthcare should not be dependent on your job, ability to pay or any other arbitrary status.

Healthcare should be provided as a public good, guaranteed by law, for all. No exceptions.

Our thanks and credit to Peter Kinoy of for this tribute to Mariana's fight for the NY Health Act and housing justice.

04/02/2026

04/02/2026

We are devastated to share that Mariana Pineda, one of our fiercest activists, tremendous organizer and a dear friend to many of us in the movement for the NY Health Act & Medicare for All universal healthcare, passed away earlier this week from heart failure related to Long COVID.

We hold Mariana and her family in our hearts as we redouble the fight - to ensure that no one is ever again forced, like Mariana was, to spend precious time and energy arguing with insurance companies, clawing their way through billing codes and administrative barriers, all while worrying about how they are going to pay for it and attempting to survive on GoFundMe's.

New York failed Mariana. The toll that this stress took on her health can't be underestimated and could have been avoided.

NOW.

Join us in the fight.

03/28/2026

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
NOT ICE & WARFARE

PATIENTS NOT PROFITS
CARE NOT CUTS