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

01/18/2025

We rallied for the on Tuesday with supporters from across New York, outside of Governor Kathy Hochul’s State of the State Address to tell her & our NYS lawmakers to protect NYers & !

Our deep thanks to everyone who came out & to our partnering orgs for cosponsoring! We distributed hundreds of flyers & delivered leaflets & posters to our lawmakers’ offices, urging them to take immediate action to move this life-saving cost-saving transformational legislation.

01/16/2025

We’re at Wall Street this morning where UnitedHealth Group - the parent company of insurer UnitedHealthcare & PBM OptumRx - released its annual profit report for 2024.
We joined & more to demand that stop denying care for profit!

01/10/2025

Today we rallied with NYC municipal retirees & Cross-Union Retirees Organizing Committee, defending against privatization of traditional public Medicare through for-profit Medicare disAdvantage insurers who routinely deny care in order to maximize their profits.

guarantee it by passing the universal single payer healthcare, to lead the way to improved expanded

12/31/2024

Just a few hours left to make a tax-deductible end-of-year contribution to fuel our fight for single payer & health justice!

Go to www.pnhpnymetro.org to learn more & contribute to help + & Medicaid from profitization.

12/24/2024

Let's meet up in Albany to make some noise for the at Gov Hochul's State of the State Address on Tuesday January 14!

Tell Gov Hochul & our state lawmakers to in 2025, without delay, to provide universal single payer healthcare to all who live OR work full time in New York. Our state lawmakers have the power to protect NYers from delays & denial of care for profit by insurance corporations, drug price gouging by big pharma, and from attacks on healthcare by the incoming presidential administration.

RSVP & connect with others in your area to carpool to Albany Jan 14th: www.bit.ly/Jan14Carpool4NYHA

If your organization would like to join as a co-sponsor of this rally, please email [email protected]

12/23/2024

Thanks to for including comments by our Executive Director Morgan Moore in this article. Systemic inequity requires a systemic solution: !

https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/only-in-america-perspectives-on-the-murder-of-a-health-care-ceo

12/18/2024

Just one day left to go for our Matching Donation Challenge - to have your contribution doubled! Donations of any amount, large or small, goes a long way.
Thank you for your support!

12/16/2024

Communities should have a say in what happens to their hospitals. We share in the deep disappointment in Gov. Hochul’s veto.

I’m deeply disappointed Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed my LICH Act with Hon. Gustavo Rivera.

It would have improved NY oversight and community engagement BEFORE, not after a hospital or major unit closes. Closures leave New Yorkers struggling with reduced healthcare & longer emergency response times.

These decisions shouldn’t happen behind closed doors where there’s no chance of saving the hospital/unit or planning for the public’s access to healthcare.

This bill has only gained support. Sen Rivera & I remain steadfast in our efforts to pass LICH next session.

Our full statement: https://mailchi.mp/simonforbrooklyn/release-sen-rivera-am-simons-statement-on-governors-veto-of-their-local-input-for-community-healthcare-act

Advocates statement: https://drive.google.com/file/d/160cKiVLm43ztDw3Ap7INfFyDmICJh3Wm/view

12/15/2024

Our work to guarantee universal healthcare as a public good, provided to everyone, without exception, is more crucial than ever.

Any amount you can contribute will go a long way. We can't do this work without you! Go to www.pnhpnymetro.org/eoy_2024 to contribute - or to link in our bio.

The recent unified up-swell of public anger at the corporate greed that lies at the core of the current U.S. healthcare system, makes it clear that people are fed up with being exploited for profit by insurers and big pharma.

Now is the time to confront that greed head-on by advocating for and enacting universal single payer healthcare. We need your support to continue the fight to pass the NY Health Act & lead the way to Medicare for All.

12/12/2024

We can’t continue doing the same thing & expecting different results.
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Other nations & countless studies show that universal healthcare works & is less costly than our current system in terms of both lives & money. It’s supported by a majority of voters. It’s up to all of us to demand our legislators put people above their corporate donors.

12/08/2024

Enacting the NY Health Act will save NY state BILLIONS compared to what we spend now for healthcare. It’s morally & fiscally the only responsible decision.

www.pnhpnymetro.org/economic_analysis_nyhealthact

12/05/2024

Organize with us to pass the NY Health Act & Medicare for All - single payer universal healthcare.

Together we can end for-profit insurance interference in our care.
All care for all people should be covered & free at the point of care. Patients & their team of health workers should determine the care needed, not insurance corporations with the perverse incentive to deny care to pocket more money.

Credit to for the original graphic & unflagging solidarity with working people

12/03/2024

This Giving Tuesday, invest in the movement for universal, single-payer, healthcare for all: www.pnhpnymetro.org/eoy_2024

Our advocacy, leadership-building, educational and organizing efforts are more important now than ever. We must make it clear to New York lawmakers that they have an urgent duty to make a real difference in the lives of millions by passing the New York Health Act, leading the way to Medicare for All.

12/01/2024

RSVP for our resolution writing workshop happening tomorrow, Mon, Dec 2nd, 7pm to 8:30pm, focused on medical society resolutions to from profitization, and &

More info & RSVP: http://bit.ly/MedSocResDec2

Featured Speaker:
Eve Shapiro, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician in Tucson, AZ, where she ran a private practice specializing in adolescent medicine for over 30 years. She also served as clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Since selling her practice, Dr. Shapiro has been practicing part time and serving in leadership positions with Physicians for a National Health Program and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Hosted by
Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP)
NYC Against Segregated Healthcare (NYCASH)
NY Doctors Coalition
Physicians for a National Health Program - NY Metro Chapter (PNHP NY Metro)

11/29/2024

Donate today to our Matching Donation Challenge! Every eligible dollar donated, from now until Thursday, December 12th, up to $20,000, will be doubled - matched dollar-for-dollar by members of our committed Advisory Board.

www.pnhpnymetro.org/eoy_2024

There are three ways to qualify for the match to help us raise $40,000:

1. Become a FIRST-TIME donor at any amount!

2. Become a SUSTAINING monthly donor at $25 per month or more! Includes annual membership in PNHP National + enables our Chapter to budget most effectively for the coming year.

3. Become a REPEAT donor with an End-Of-Year contribution of $250 or more! Includes annual membership in PNHP National.

To contribute by check, make checks payable to PNHP-NY Metro and mail to: PO Box 352, New York, NY 10028

Your generous contribution will enable us to continue to offer important programs, leadership-building, and organizing opportunities to protect our existing public healthcare programs - and to pass the New York Health Act, on the path to Medicare for All.

11/15/2024

We’re at the Summit today in Chicago kicking off the Annual Meeting this weekend. Sharing just some of the incredible poster presentations developed by medical students from SNaHP chapters across the country, including the poster shown in slide 1, created by our current Student Fellows Jennifer Sugijanto & Zachary Gallin! We are so excited for the future of medicine with the incoming generation of brilliant dedicated justice minded health workers advocating for a more just, equitable single payer healthcare system in which we all can thrive.

11/01/2024

From SUNY Downstate to Beth Israel, communities deserve to know BEFORE their hospital closes!

Thank you to the New York City Council for your hearing on healthcare access and resolution urging Governor Kathy Hochul to sign my LICH bill with Hon. Gustavo Rivera.

We need better New York State oversight and transparency.

As history repeats itself, it's more important than ever to have stronger state oversight and REAL community engagement to protect the public’s health.

I'm proud to work with a dedicated group of colleagues and advocates.