Past Events
Tuesday, March 20, 7:30 PM
Victory against Big Insurance
How Connecticut Threw Private Insurers out of Medicaid
Sheldon Toubman, Esq.
Staff Attorney, New Haven Legal Assistance Association
Discussant: Diane Spicer, Esq.
Supervising Attorney, Community Health Advocates,
Community Service Society of New York
After a determined campaign, health advocates in Connecticut successfully got the state to drop private insurers from its Medicaid program. In February of 2012, Gov. Malloy announced the move as a way to reduce state spending and improve care, having found the existing system to be "overly profit-driven." Leading the campaign were the New Haven Legal Assistance Association and the Connecticut Health Policy Project.
Find out how it happened from Sheldon Toubman, who led the legal challenge. Join a discussion on this victory's implications for state-based single payer campaigns.
Beth Israel's Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East (btw 14th & 15th St.)
2nd Floor Auditorium
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Saturday, March 17, 2012 • noon - 1:50 pm and 3 pm - 4:50 pm
Where Is the Health Care Justice Movement Going?
PACE UNIVERSITY, Room W612
One Pace Plaza in downtown Manhattan
across the street (to the East) from City Hall
PART I: Single Payer Health Insurance
12 pm to 1:50 pm
Chair: Martha Livingston, PhD
Panelists: Oliver Fein, MD
Katie Robbins
Leonard Rodberg, PhD
Josh Starcher
PART II: Health Care for the 99%
3 pm to 4:50 pm
Chair: Mary O'Brien, MD
Panelists: Maria Fehlig, RN
Adam Gaffney, MD
Meir Hamilton
Danny Lugassy, MD
Beth Oram, RN, NP
Amit Patel, MD, MPH
James Ronayne
Health care justice activists have worked for many years toward a national health insurance (single payer) solution to the U.S.'s corporate, for-profit health care mess. We continue in this struggle, which we will report on in the first of two sessions. We will discuss state and local organizing, and in the second half, describe the work of "Health Care for the 99%," an official working group of Occupy Wall Street. In both sessions there will be a focus on discussion and strategizing.
Limited supply of complimentary tickets available for medical students and residents. These tickets will allow access to these two and all other panels over the weekend-long Left Forum. Contact sam@pnhpnymetro.org
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 • 7:30 pm
Separate and Unequal
Medical Apartheid in New York City
Charmaine Ruddock, MS
Project Director, Bronx Health REACH
Shena Elrington, JD
Health Justice Program, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
In 2008, the Bronx Health REACH Coalition filed a civil rights complaint with the New York State Office of the Attorney General alleging that three academic medical centers in New York City discriminated on the basis of payer status and race. The complaint charges that two standards of care are offered—a clinic system for the publicly insured and uninsured, and a faculty practice system for those with private insurance.
Join us for an examination of the institutional policies and practices that contribute to and exacerbate racial disparities in health care in New York City. Click here to read more about the case.
Tuesday, February 21, 7:30 PM
Beth Israel's Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East (btw 14th & 15th St.)
2nd Floor Auditorium
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 • 6:30 pm
Special Presentation
with Dr. Michael Chen
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
of Taiwan's National Health Insurance Bureau
We will meet this month for a Special Presentation on Tuesday, February 7, at 6:30 pm, with Dr. Michael Chen, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Bureau. Dr. Chen will discuss the recent progress of Taiwan's 17-year-old single payer system. Dr. Chen is an engaging, informative, and highly knowledgeable speaker, and this will surely be a great presentation.
We will meet in the B1 Auditorium of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office at 1 E. 42nd St, between Madison and Fifth Ave.
Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome.
Saturday, October 15, 2011 • 1 pm
Join a Health Professionals Teach-In/Speak-Out
Washington Square Park Arch, Manhattan
Followed by a 5 PM march to Times Square to join with other groups organizing solidarity events that day. Hundreds of solidarity actions are planned across the country for Saturday.
* please wear your white coats or scrubs!
Help out in other ways:
1) Provide Medical Presence — On-going @ Zuccotti Park, site of OWS — doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists: we need your help! Please contact organizing@pnhpnymetro.org 212-485-6235 ASAP to be part of the team, whether you can take one shift or become a regular.
2) Organize Regular Teach-Ins/Speak Outs on Single Payer — On-going @ Zuccotti Park, site of OWS --collaborating with the Health Care for All Working Group of OWS and our ally Healthcare-NOW! NYC
Thursday, October 20, 2011 • 9 pm – 10 pm
Webinar with Dr. Oli Fein
"Health Care Reform? PPACA vs. Single Payer"
In conjunction with AMSA, we are bringing you
our first webinar event with Dr. Oli Fein!
Oliver T. Fein, MD - Internal medicine, New York Dr. Oliver Fein is professor of clinical medicine and clinical public health at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he serves as associate dean responsible for the Office of Affiliations and the Office of Global Health Education. He is a general internist and active in clinical practice.
Dr. Fein is immediate past-president of Physicians for a National Health Program and chair of the New York Metro Chapter of PNHP. He is a past vice president of the American Public Health Association, where he served four years on the executive board.
The playback of UCF (Universal Communications Format) rich media files requires appropriate players. To view this type of rich media files in the meeting, please check whether you have the players installed on your computer by going to https://amsaorg.webex.com/amsaorg/systemdiagnosis.php.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This WebEx service includes a feature that allows audio and any documents and other materials exchanged or viewed during the session to be recorded. By joining this session, you automatically consent to such recordings. If you do not consent to the recording, discuss your concerns with the meeting host prior to the start of the recording or do not join the session. Please note that any such recordings may be subject to discovery in the event of litigation.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 • 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Politics of Austerity & the Future of Medicare
View from Washington
Jane Hamsher
Founder & Publisher
of FireDogLake.com
Introductory presentation by
Len Rodberg, PhD
Research Director, PNHP-NY Metro
Beth Israel's Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East
(btw 14th & 15th St.) 2nd Floor (map)
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Jane Hamsher is one of the most outspoken critics of the manufactured crisis of austerity currently gripping Washington. She has been a strong defender of Medicare and the social safety net through Firedoglake.com, her political blog with a daily readership of 100,000, and appearances on CNN, MSNBC and PBS. She will explore the evolving political dynamics of Medicare, the interests and posturing of various stakeholders, and the challenges of effective grassroots action.
Dr. Len Rodberg, PNHP-NY Metro Research Director, will provide an introductory presentation on policy basics of Medicare.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
6 to 8 PM, brief program at 6:30 PM
Special Celebration Honoring Oliver Fein, M.D.
Chair, PNHP-NY Metro
Immediate Past President, PNHP
Associate Dean for Affiliations, Weill Cornell Medical College
Wine, Sushi, Hors d'oeuvres
Please join us in celebrating Oli's remarkable achievements as a clinician, educator, and advocate for health justice.
Weill Cornell Medical Center • New York Presbyterian Hospital
525 E. 68th St., Whitney Room 117
(between York Ave. & the East River), Manhattan
Brief program starts at 6:30 PM:
Ronda Kotelchuck, M.R.P.
Executive Director, Primary Care Development Corporation
Susana Morales, M.D.
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Weill Cornell Medical College
B. Robert Meyer, M.D.
Vice Chair, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Joanne Landy, M.P.H.
Former Executive Director, Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro
***** Suggested contribution levels *****
$100 Friend, $175 Supporter, $250 Benefactor
RSVP: email organizing@pnhpnymetro.org or call 212-485-6235.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 • 7:30 pm
Insiders Share Stories
Vermont's Campaign for Universal Health Care
Hear the inspiring story of the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign's grassroots effort to make Vermont the first state in the country to pass a universal healthcare system
Panelists include:
Oliver Fein, MD, Chair, NY Chapter, Physicians for a National Health Program and professor at Weill Cornell Medical College
Anja Rudiger, National, Economic and Social Rights Initiative
Katie Robbins, Healthcare NOW!
James Haslam, director, Vermont Workers' Center
All Souls' Unitarian Church
Lexington Ave. and 80th St.
Manhattan
Thursday, May 19, 2011 • 7 pm
The New Health Law vs. Single Payer
A presentation by Oliver Fein, MD
Chair, Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro
Associate Dean, Weill Cornell Medical College
Will the new law control costs? Will it cover everyone? Will it allow you to focus on the doctor-patient relationship, instead of fighting insurance companies to cover needed care? In contrast, how would a single-payer, publicly funded, privately delivered system address these crucial questions?
Brooklyn Hospital Center
121 DeKalb Ave., 3rd Fl. Auditorium
Brooklyn
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 • 7:30 pm
Visiting an Alternate Universe
PNHP Sees Canadian Health Care in Action
Follows Annual General Membership Meeting
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter; co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX
The Tenth Annual Joanne Lukomnik Forum
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 • 7:30 pm (free)
6:00 pm Reception & Book Signing ($25 suggested donation)
The Good Doctors
Medical Activists Fighting for Health Justice
From the Civil Rights Movement to Today
with
John Dittmer, PhD
Professor Emeritus of History, DePauw University
Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the McLemore Prize
The Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) was organized in 1964 to provide support and care for activists organizing black voters in Mississippi. Galvanized by the glaring inequality they saw, the MCHR eventually expanded to tackling issues ranging from poverty to the war in Vietnam. Join with John Dittmer, author of "The Good Doctors," and MCHR doctors and nurses to celebrate the group's legacy and its members' continued fight for health justice.
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter; co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 • 7:30 pm
The Spectrum of Concierge Care in the U.S.
Scientific, Ethical, and Policy Issues
with
Martin Donohoe, MD, FACP
Adjunct Associate Professor, Portland State University
Board Member, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
Founder, Public Health and Social Justice
Concierge care—also known as luxury care, boutique medicine, or retainer practice—is a growing phenomenon in the U.S. In exchange for higher fees, patients are promised shorter waiting times, lower patient-physician ratios, and sometimes gourmet meals and valet parking. How does this trend impact public health and the movement toward an equitable health system?
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Admission Is Free
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter; co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX
Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 • 7:30 pm
Toward Single-Payer Health Care Reform in Vermont
with
Leonard Rodberg, Ph. D.
Chair, Department of Urban Studies, Queens College, City University of New York
on William Hsiao's Groundbreaking Report
on Reform Options for Vermont
Carl Berdahl
medical student, Yale School of Medicine
on Medical Student Organizing
Discussant: Dr. Virginia Hood
Professor of Medicine, University of Vermont
President-elect, American College of Physicians
In 2010, the Vermont state legislature passed a bill mandating universal health care. The bill required a study of three reform options. Dr. William Hsiao, the Harvard economist who designed Taiwan's single-payer system, was chosen to conduct the study. Vermont's new governor Peter Shumlin ran on a single-payer platform and is intent on moving forward in consultation with Dr. Hsiao. Will Vermont lead the country to single-payer?
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Admission Is Free
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter; co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX
Monday, Jan. 10, 2011
JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL EVENING
with
Wendell Potter
Author of Deadly Spin:
An Insurance Company Insider
Speaks Out on
How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
Wendell Potter is the former head of corporate communications for CIGNA. Since leaving in 2008 he has become the most prominent whistleblower of the private health insurance industry, speaking out against its deadly, profit-driven practices. He has testified repeatedly before Congress and has appeared in highprofile interviews on Bill Moyers Journal, Democracy NOW!, and many others. Potter is the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy.
6:00 pm - Reception & Book Signing
7:30 pm - Presentation
Location:
Murphy Institute
CUNY
25 W. 43rd St.,
18th fl.
Manhattan
As always, the event is open and free to the general public
TUESDAY, November 16, 2010 • 7:30 pm
Hippocrates' Shadow
What Doctors Don't Know and Don't Tell You,
and How Truth Can Repair the Patient-Doctor Breach
David H. Newman, MD
Dr. Newman, author of "Hippocrates' Shadow," directs a clinical research program and teaches at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mt. Sinai Medical Center; has been widely published in biomedical journals
discussant: LAURA S. BOYLAN, MD
Dr. Boylan is a neurologist practicing in Pennsylvania and at the Manhattan VA and a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at NYU School of Medicine; PNHP NY Metro Chapter Board Member
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
TUESDAY, October 19, 2010 • 7:30 pm
The President's Deficit Commission:
What It Could Mean for Medicare
Doug Henwood
Editor of Left Business Observer, author of Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom and After the New Economy, and host of a weekly radio show on WBAI in New York
discussant: Larry Wood
Community Organizer, Goddard Riverside Community Center, representing GRCC in many coalitions, including the steering committee of NY Network for Action on Medicare & Social Security and The Campaign for Fiscal Equity
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
TUESDAY, September 21, 2010 • 7:30 pm
PNHP Activism: Then and Now
Annual Medical Student Forum
David Himmelstein, MD and Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH
Co-founders, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
and
Cameron Gibson and Luci Olewinski
Medical students, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine;
PNHP NY Metro Chapter Board Members
"PNHP and Medical Student Single Payer Activism"
moderator: Lucia K. Somberg, MPH
Weill Cornell Medical College and PNHP NY Metro Chapter Board Member
Join us as we welcome David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler to New York, and greet our latest group of wonderful student single payer activists
Students: Join other students at 6 p.m. for single-payer overview & light dinner. After the forum, enjoy a social hour with drinks and food and meet students from other medical schools.
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
THURSDAY, June 24, 2010 • 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Special Celebration Honoring Leonard Rodberg
1199/SEIU, 330 W. 42nd St
33rd Floor Penthouse
Manhattan
Suggested contribution: $100
Please RSVP
info@pnhpnymetro.org
718-222-9266
TUESDAY, May 18, 2010 • 7:30 pm
Women and Health Care Reform
What Should We Do Now?
Judy Norsigian
Executive Director of Our Bodies Ourselves; co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves (8th edition, May 2005); member of the editorial teams for Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause (2006) and Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth (2008). She is also on the editorial team for the 40th anniversary 2011 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves (due out in October 2011)
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
TEACH-IN AND SUMMIT
SATURDAY, April 24, 2010 • 10 am to 4 pm
Healthcare Reform: Yes We Can Do Better
Growing the Independent Grassroots Movement
that Will Win
Improved Medicare for All!
Join us for a group discussion
about what’s next for single payer
Share your thoughts with board members of the PNHP NY Metro Chapter and fellow advocates and supporters of single payer
St. Lukes Hospital Auditorium
Amsterdam Ave. & 113th St.
Manhattan
Together with the Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition, PNHP NY Metro Chapter, HealthCare-Now! and Single Payer New York are co-sponsoring an open meeting to discuss strategies for the single payer movement going forward after passage of the House health care insurance reform bill.
Please join us as we examine the consequences of the recently passed legislation and strategies for building the single payer movement to build support for real health care reform - not health insurance reform.
S P E A K E R S
Dr. Margaret Flowers
Congressional Fellow, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
Richard N. Gottfried
NYS Assembly District 75, Chair, Committee on Health
Katie Robbins
National Organizer, Healthcare-NOW!
Ajamu Sankofa
Chair, Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition
Dr. Andy Coates
Physicians for a National Health Program
Dr. Leonard Rodberg
Chair, Urban Studies Dept., Queens College, City University of New York
Marvin Holland
Director of Policy and Community Outreach, Transport Workers Union Local 100
Your RSVP is appreciated as it will help in knowing how many materials to have available as well as for our lunch. Donations will be appreciated, but are not necessary.
Please RSVP: info@pnhpnymetro.org
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TUESDAY, April 20, 2010 • 7:30 pm
SO NOW WHAT ?
“Single Payer Strategy after ‘Health Insurance Reform’ ”
Join us for a group discussion
about what’s next for single payer
Share your thoughts with board members of the PNHP NY Metro Chapter and fellow advocates and supporters of single payer
joanne landy (moderator)
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
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Women & Health Care Reform
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TUESDAY, March 23, 2010 • 7:30 pm
Where's Labor Been in the Year of Health Care Reform?
Bill Henning
Vice-President, Local 1180, CWA; Member of Steering Committee for Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Healthcare; long time labor leader and activist for healthcare, jobs and justice
Martha Livingston, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Health and Society at SUNY College at Old Westbury; Union Delegate and Chapter Officer, United University Professions, Local 2190, American Federation of Teachers; Member of Steering Committee of the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Health Care
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
TUESDAY, February 23, 2010 • 7:30 pm
On the Road for Single Payer
Adventures of the PNHP's National President
Dr. Oliver Fein will share highlights and anecdotes of his year of travels across the country organizing for PNHP
President, National PNHP and Chair, PNHP NY Metro Chapter, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Public Health and Associate Dean for Affiliations at the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University
A Q&A with Dr. Fein and PNHP NY Metro Chapter Board members following presentation
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
TUESDAY, January 19, 2010 • 7:30 pm
Where Do We Go from Here?
Gearing Up for Real Health Care Reform
DONNA SMITH
Single-Payer Health Care Advocate and Organizer with the California Nurses Association; co-chair, Progressive Democrats of America's "Healthcare Not Warfare" campaign; Journalist; featured as one of the documentary subjects of Michael Moore’s 2007 movie, “SiCKO”
A Q&A panel will follow the presentation with Katie Robbins, National Coordinator, HealthCare Now! and Christopher Blair, Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition joining Donna Smith to take questions from the audience
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
TUESDAY, November 17, 2009 • 7:30 pm
MEDICARE AND THE COMING HEALTH REFORM:
Improvement or Cutback?
Joseph Baker
President, Medicare Rights Center; served as Deputy Secretary for Health and Human Services, NYS, under Governor Paterson; Assistant Deputy Secretary for Health and Human Services under Governor Eliot Spitzer; Executive Vice President, Medicare Rights Center (1994-2001); graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law
alec pruchnicki, MD
Geriatrician who has practiced in a variety of in-patient and out-patient settings in NYC (Montefiore, Mt. Sinai); now affiliated with St. Vincent’s Hospital; has a primary care geriatric practice in an assisted living facility in Manhattan; PNHP NY Metro Chapter Board Member
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
PNHP NY Metro Chapter Speaker and Leadership Training
Date: SATURDAY, November 14, 2009
Time: 10 am - 4:30 pm
Location: Weill Cornell Medical College
(address will be provided upon registration)
There is no cost for the training but registration is required.
Breakfast and lunch included with registration.
The Leadership/Speaker training involves group leaders, presenters and facilitators that are members of the PNHP, NY Metro Chapter board. The training is the best place to learn more about the current health care legislation and how the proposed legislation will impact you and various constituent groups, and how Single Payer fits into the mix. This is also a speaker's training - so participants will be able to learn and practice skills that will make them better, more confident, and more knowledgeable speakers (and debaters).
THURSDAY, October 15, 2009 • 7:30 pm
SINGLE-PAYER ACTIVISM IN OBAMA'S FIRST YEAR
Reports from the Front: National and State Single-Payer Activism
Margaret Flowers, M.D.
Pediatrician, PNHP Congressional Fellow, currently full time single-payer activist, one of 13 single-payer activists arrested for protesting exclusion of single-payer in Senator Baucus' hearing on health care reform.
LAURA S. BOYLAN, MD
Neurologist practicing in Pennsylvania and at the Manhattan Veterans Administration, Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at NYU School of Medicine, PNHP NY Metro Chapter Board Member
This forum is dedicated to the memory of single-payer activist,
Marilyn Clement, founder of HealthCare-Now!
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
THURSDAY, September 17, 2009 • 7:30 pm
Single-Payer and Health Care Reform
What’s Happening in Washington
• Medical Student Perspectives
• PNHP Perspectives
STANTON SHEK / ANTHONY ACCURSO
“Single-payer activism at NYC region medical schools then and now:
what we have done and what we should do”
Stanton Shek: Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education
Anthony Accurso: SUNY Downstate College of Medince PNHP NY Metro Chapter Board Members
LEONARD RODBERG, PH.D
“Current Congressional Legislation and Political Landscape”
Professor and Chair, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY;
Chapter Coordinator and Research Director, PNHP NY Metro Chapter
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Students: Join other students at 6 p.m. for single-payer overview & light dinner. After the forum, enjoy a social hour with drinks and food and meet students from other medical schools.
Saturday, July 25, 2009 • 1 - 5 pm
SINGLE PAYER “TEACH-IN”
Join us and learn tips and up to the minute information for speaker presentations and how to become a more effective activist for single payer
CUNY, Murphy Center 25 W. 43rd St., 18th Floor, NYC
The Teach-In is free but please RSVP to: info@pnhpnymetro.org
Co-sponsored by PNHP NY Metro Chapter, HealthCare-Now! and Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition
Medicare: Made in America
Single-Payer DC Lobby Day and Rally
July 30, 2009
Washington, DC
S C H E D U L E
1 pm - 2 pm Rally starts
in the Upper Senate Park
(map viewable at link below)
Buses will be available from New York for $35 roundtrip.
9am - 11:30 am
Volunteers needed for morning drop to all Members of Congress. Meet in Room 2138 Judiciary Committee Room of Rayburn House Building for materials to deliver to every member of Congress! Email info@healthcare-now.org if you plan to help with the morning lobby visits.
2 pm onward
Activists will take to the hill for meetings with Members of Congress
If you need help in setting up a meeting with your Member, please email info@healthcare-now.org. Lobby materials will be available in the Judiciary Committee Room for pick up on the day of the meetings.
SUNDAY, June 28, 2009 • 7:30 pm
GAY PRIDE PARADE
This year the parade will have a single payer float, sponsored by ACT-UP, with the PNHP NY Metro Chapter as one of the co-sponsors. Join us and wear your white coats!
When: Sunday, June 28
Time: 11:15 am
Where: 54th St. btw 5th and Madison
(likely closer to 5th Ave, look for folks with ACT UP and PHIMG signs)
TUESDAY, June 16, 2009 • 7:30 pm
General Membership Meeting and Board Elections
PNHP NY Metro Chapter
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Auditorium
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
TUESDAY, May 19, 2009 • 7:30 pm
Are We Any Closer This Time?:
Lessons from the Century-Long Struggle for Health Care Reform
Theodore M. Brown, Ph.D.
Professor of History, Community and Preventive
Medicine,
and Medical Humanities, University of Rochester
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at
Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX
TUESDAY, April 21, 2009 • 7:30 pm
Health Reform in Obama's First 100 Days:
Reports from Inside the Beltway
Organizing by PNHP and Other Activist Organizations
LEONARD RODBERG, Ph.D
Professor and Chair, Urban Studies Department
at Queens College/CUNY; Chapter Coordinator and Research Director, PNHP
NY Metro Chapter
DANIELLE ALEXANDER, M.S.
PNHP Fellow, Washington, D.C.
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at
Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX
TUESDAY, March 24, 2009 • 7:30 pm
Learn about Taiwan's Single Payer System
Experiences So Far and Future Challenges
Tsung-Mei Cheng
Host and Executive Editor, International
Forum, Princeton University, Health Economist
Learn about the world's newest enormously successful single-payer system from one of its major architects. Tsung-Mei Cheng, featured in the 2008 PBS program "Sick Around the World," will present a timely overview of great interest to U.S. single payer activists.
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at
Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX, We
Be Illin'
TUESDAY, February 24, 2009 • 7:30 pm
Understanding Cancer Disparities
Al Ashford, MD
and
Peter Bach, MD
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at
Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX, We
Be Illin'
TUESDAY, January 27, 2009 • 7:30 pm
Media Coverage of Health Care Reform: Getting Our Message Out
Trudy Lieberman
Director, Health and Medicine Reporting Program,
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, contributor to Columbia Journalism
Review and The Nation
Discussants:
Media and Communications Committee
NY Metro Chapter, PNHP
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at
Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX, We
Be Illin'
TUESDAY, November 18, 2008 • 7:30 pm
HEALTH REFORM STRATEGY POST ELECTION
LEONARD RODBERG, PhD
Coordinator, PNHP NY Metro Chapter, Professor
and Chair, Urban Studies Dept., Queens College/CUNY and Director, Infoshare
Community Data Service
JOANNE LANDY, MPH
Co-Director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy
and former Executive Director, PNHP NY Metro Chapter
STEVEN B. AUERBACH, MD, MPH, FAAP
Board Member, PNHP NY Metro Chapter and has
a weekly blog on health care and single payer on the Daily Kos (the largest
political website in the U.S.)
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at
Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX, We
Be Illin'
TUESDAY, October 21, 2008 • 7:30 pm
Student Activism for Single Payer Health
Care
in the Election Year and Beyond
Ayana Jordan / Anthony Accurso
“Presidential Health Care Proposals and Single Payer”
Ayana Jordan: Albert Einstein
College of Medicine
Anthony Accurso: SUNY
Downstate College of Medicine,
PNHP NY Metro Chapter Board Members
Mary Carol Jennings
“Collaborations between PNHP and AMSA”
Jack Rutledge Legislative Director, American Medical
Student Association
Olveen Carrasquillo, M.D., MPH
“How to Stay Active for Single Payer beyond Medical School”
Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons,
PNHP, NY Metro Chapter Board Member
Join students after the forum for social hour with food and drinks. Meet and connect with students from other medical schools.
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Urban Studies Department at
Queens College/CUNY, Student National Medical Association-Region IX, We
Be Illin'
Celebrate Single Payer and PNHP, NY Metro
Chapter!
Celebrate Congressman John Conyers, Jr.!
Celebrate “10 Excellent Reasons for National
Health Care”!
Please join us as we honor Congressman John Conyers, Jr.,
lead sponsor of H.R. 676, the “Expanded and Improved Medicare
for All Act,” with a Lifetime Achievement Award and celebrate
the release of our new book, “10 Excellent Reasons for National Health
Care.”
Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location: 1199/SEIU, Cherkasky-Davis Conference Center
333 W. 42nd Street, 33rd Floor, New York City
Hors d'oeuvres, wine and soda
We ask you to contribute $100 or more, but all contributions, large
or
small, will be appreciated. Your contribution will help us distribute
the
book to Congress, media, religious and union leaders. Contributors of $100
or more will receive a signed copy of the book.
Please RSVP: Phone: 718.222.9266 Email: pnhpnymetro@nyc.rr.com
Physicians for a National Health Program, NY Metro Chapter
Wed., June 18, 2008 • 7:30 pm
PNHP Membership Meeting & Board Elections
VIDEO: Health, Money, and Fear
A video by Paul Hochfeld, M.D.
COMMITTEE UPDATES AND SPECIAL ON-THE-SPOT
OUTREACH PROJECT:
Updates from Chapter committees. Also, please
bring your address books for an on-the-spot outreach effort using the
PNHP “Open Letter to Candidates on Single Payer Health Reform.”
Board ELECTIONS for 2008-2009 Board of Directors of PNHP-NY Metro
Board Nominees' bios and statements
Only paid-up national PNHP members can vote
(you may join or renew at the door).
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Wed., May 28, 2008 • 7:30 pm
Annual Joanne Lukomnik Forum
Beyond Single Payer:
The Patient Centered Medical Home and Women’s Health Needs
Linda Prine, MD
Family Physician, member of PNHP since 1989
Lois Uttley, MPP
Director, The MergerWatch Project
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association
NYC, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
THURS., May 1, 2008 • 7:30 pm
Health Care Reform in NYS: What Are the Options?
Richard Gottfried
Chair, Health Committee, NYS Assembly
Elisabeth Benjamin, M.S.P.H., J.D.
Director, Health Care Restructuring Initiative,
Community Service Society
commentator: Mary O’Brien, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University;
Chair, Media-Communications Committee, Physicians for a National Health
Program NY-Metro Chapter
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association
NYC, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Mar. 26, 2008 • 7:30 pm
SiCKO in our Backyard: Managed Care Abuses in New York City
What leads a hospital CEO to bring a RICO suit against private health insurance companies: Thousands of small frauds, massive violations of public health law!
David Rosen, MPA
President and CEO of MediSys Health Network,
Inc. - Jamaica, Flushing and Brookdale University Hospital Centers
commentator: Oliver T. Fein, MD
Chair, PNHP, NY Metro Chapter
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association
NYC, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Feb. 27, 2008 • 7:30 pm
Getting Loud for Single Payer during the Election:
The California Experience and PNHP Proposals
Don Bechler
Chair, California Universal Healthcare Organizing
Project
Dr. Claudia Fegan
Past President, Physicians for a National Health
Program and Associate Chief Medical Officer, Cook County Bureau of Health
Services
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association
NYC, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Jan. 23, 2008 • 7:30 pm
Paying for Health Care Reform:
Single-Payer vs Democratic Candidates’ Plans
LEONARD RODBERG, Ph.D
Professor and Chair, Urban Studies Department
at Queens College/CUNY; Director, Infoshare Community Data Service; Treasurer
and Research Director, NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National
Health Program
THEODORE R. MARMOR, Ph.D
Yale University Professor of Public Policy,
School of Management and Department of Political Science (ret.); books
include The Politics of Medicare (1973, 2000)
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: AMSA-Region II, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!,
Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, Public Health Association
NYC, Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Nov. 28, 2007 • 7:30 pm
HIGH ANXIETY:
Why Having Private Health Insurance
Doesn't Mean You Are Really Covered
A presentation of the Consumer Reports May 2007 Survey “Are You Really Covered?” — which found that 4 in 10 Americans can’t depend on their health insurance
NANCY METCALF
Senior Project Editor, Consumer Reports
discussant:
SHOSHANNA SOFAER, PH.D.
Robert R. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors:AMSA-Region II, Avery Institute for Social Change, New Yorkers
for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!, Metro New York Health Care for
All Campaign, Queens College Urban Studies Department, Student National
Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Oct. 24, 2007 • 7:30 pm
Medical Student Activist
Reforming Healthcare Through Student Action
C. Rory Goodwin
National President,
Student National Medical Association (SNMA); M.D./Ph.D. candidate, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine
Flavio Casoy
Third year medical student, Brown University Medical
School; AMSA Jack Rutledge Fellow for Universal Healthcare and Elimination
of Healthcare Disparities
David Marcus
Third year medical student, SUNY Downstate College
of Medicine Chief Clinical Officer, Brooklyn Free Clinic; Board Member
of Physicians for a National Health Program, NY Metro Chapter
Joy Gibson
M.D./Ph.D candidate, Albert Einstein College
of Medicine
Project Director for Einstein Community Health Outreach (ECHO)
FORUM CO-CHAIRS: Dr. Oliver Fein, Chair, PNHP-NY Metro
Chapter,
and Ayana Jordan, Fourth year MD/PhD student Albert Einstein
Admission Is Free
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors:AMSA-Region II, Avery Institute for Social Change, New Yorkers
for National Health Care, Healthcare-Now!, Metro New York Health Care for
All Campaign, Public Health Association NYC, Queens College Urban Studies
Department, Student National Medical Association-Region IX, We Be Illin'
Wed., Sept. 26, 2007 • 7:30 pm
Get Active for Single-Payer (H.R. 676)
PNHP National Campaign update and how to
influence the Presidential Election
Quentin Young, MD
National Coordinator, Physicians for a National
Health Program
Recently named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 100 most
powerful people in healthcare
Todd Main
National Campaign Director, Physicians for a
National Health Program
Eric Sawyer
Founding member of ACT UP NY
Special appearances by Joanne Landy and Jay Kallio for a mock “birddogging session”
* Special reception in honor of Dr. Young *
6:30 p.m. • Conference Room 1, 2nd Fl. • $15
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program-NY
Metro Chapter
co-sponsors:Avery Institute for Social Change, New Yorkers for National
Health Care, Healthcare-Now!, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign,
Queens College Urban Studies Department, We Be Illin’
Admission to Forum is Free
TAKE ACTION FOR NATIONAL HEALTH CARE!
Come to a Town Hall Meeting on July 17th in
New York City
Learn the facts about national health care and how you can get involved.
Brief presentations by sponsoring organizations
followed by strategy discussion with all participants.
- Contact your Senators and Congressmen.
- Outreach to the community, friends, family and colleagues.
- Learn about how to "Birddog" political candidates to push them on their health care proposals.
- Work on a state and local level for national health care.
- Write letters to the editor.
Please come to this important meeting. You can make a difference!
Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Time: 6:30 PM
Place: St. Bartholomew's Chapel (50th Street and Park
Ave. in Manhattan)
Sponsored by: Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition Sponsors: Physicians for a National Health Program — NY Metro Chapter; NYC Chapter, Healthcare-NOW!; New York State Nurses Association Co-sponsors: AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP); American Medical Student Association (Region 2); Brecht Forum; Children Rise Foundation; New York City Region, Green Party of New York State; Housing Works; Long Island Coalition for a National Health Plan; Progressive Democrats of America; Student National Medical Association (Region IX); We be Illin’ (list in formation)
Tues., June 12, 2007 • 7:30 pm
PNHP Membership Meeting & Board Elections
A G E N D A H I G H L I G H T S
VIDEO: California OneCare
a terrific 21-minute video dramatizing the need for single payer health insurance
SPECIAL CANADA UPDATE from Martha Livingston, PhD and Carol Schneebaum, MD reporting on the May conference in Saskatchewan “S.O.S. Medicare 2: Looking Forward. Building on Tommy Douglas’ Vision of Medicare”
ELECTIONS for 2007-2008 Board of Directors of PNHP-NY Metro
All welcome. Only paid-up national PNHP members can vote (you may join or renew at the door).
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Wed., May 16, 2007 • 7:30 pm
The Role of Health Care Reform in the Elimination of Health Care Disparities
Dr. Satcher was unable to attend, due to weather
conditions which made flying into New York impossible. The program was
not canceled, however. There were impressive reports from students at
Cornell, Einstein and Downstate on ways in which the issues of disaparities
and health care reform were being addressed on their respective campuses.
Dr. Satcher has promised to come at a future date.
David Satcher, MD, PhD
Dr. David Satcher completed his four-year
term as the 16th Surgeon General of the United States in February 2002.
He also served as Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department
of Health and Human Services from February 1998 to January 2001. Dr.
Satcher is Director of the Center of Excellence on Health Disparities
at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia. He occupies
the Poussaint-Satcher-Cosby Chair in Mental Health at MSM. From December
2004 to July 2006, Dr. Satcher served as the President of the Morehouse
School of Medicine.
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
1300 York Avenue at 69th Street
Weill Auditorium, Second Floor
Manhattan
ADMISSION FREE · RESERVATIONS NOT REQUIRED
BUT TO ASSURE A PLACE LET US KNOW IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND
co-sponsors: Avery Institute for Social Change, Student National Medical Association-Region IX, American Medical Student Association-Region 2, Public Health Association of New York City, New Yorkers for National Health Care, Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, NYC Chapter of Healthcare-Now, Queens College Urban Studies Department
Tues., May 1, 2007
6:30 pm registration & refreshments
7:30 pm presentations
Getting Our Professional Organizations
To Endorse
a Single-payer
Universal
Health Insurance Program
Lawrence Faltz, M.D., who has worked to get the NY State Chapter of the
American College of Physicians to endorse a single-payer system
Mary J. Finnin, M.S., R.N., who has worked with the New York and American
Nursing Associations to support a single-payer program
Ayana Jordan, an M.D./Ph.D. student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
who has worked to introduce the issue of single-payer into the Einstein
curriculum and with the Student National Medical Association
Peter Barland, M.D., who has worked with Ayana Jordan
on curriculum change at Einstein
Moderator: Carol Schneebaum, MD
Scarsdale Public Library
54 Olmsted Road in Scarsdale
Tues., Apr. 24, 2007 • 7:30 pm
Acting Up for Single Payer Universal Health Care
John Riley
AIDS activist and a member of ACT UP (ACT UP,
the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) since 1992; part of a collective that
hosts the radio show “Out-FM” on WBAI 99.5 FM
JOANNE LANDY, MPH
Executive Director, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter;
arrested for civil disobedience in ACT UP’s 3/29 Wall Street Health Care
Protest
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
Sponsored by
Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter
co-sponsors: Avery Institute for Social Change, Metro NY Health Care for
All Campaign, Student National Medical Assn (Reg. IX), American Medical
Student Assn (Reg. 2), NYC Chapter of Healthcare-Now, New Yorkers for National
Health Care, Queens College Urban Studies Dept.
Tues., Mar. 27, 2007 • 7:30 pm
The Medicare Middleman Multiplication Act:
What’s Next for Medicare?
Robert M. Hayes
President, Medicare Rights Center
Laura Boylan, MD
Board Member, PNHP NY Metro Chapter
Assistant Professor of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine
Neurologist, Bellevue Hospital Center
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
co-sponsors: Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, Avery Institute for Social Change, Student National Medical Association (Region IX), Queens College Urban Studies Department, New Yorkers for National Health Care, American Medical Student Association (Region 2), NYC Chapter of Healthcare-Now, and Public Health Association of New York City
Feb. 27 , 2007 (Tues.) • 7:30 pm
Clearing the Fog:
Seeing Through the New
“Universal” Health Care Proposals
LEONARD RODBERG, PHD
Research Director, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter; Associate
Professor and Chair, Urban Studies Department, Queens College-CUNY
MARK HANNAY
Director, Metro New York Health Care for All
Campaign
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
co-sponsors: Metro NY Health Care for All Campaign, Avery Institute for Social Change, Student National Medical Association (Region IX), American Medical Student Association (Region 2), NYC Chapter of Healthcare-Now, Queens College Urban Studies Department, New Yorkers for National Health Care, and Public Health Association of New York City
Jan. 30, 2007 (Tues.) • 7:30 pm
THE ROLE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
IN IMPROVING THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH:
The Need for Single Payer National Health Insurance
Lewis Goldfrank, MD
Chairman and Professor, Department of Emergency
Medicine, New York University
Director of Emergency Medicine, Bellevue Hospital
Medical Director, New York City Poison Center
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets)
Manhattan
co-sponsors: NY Metro Health Care for All Campaign; Avery Institute for Social Change; NYC Chapter of Healthcare-Now; Public Health Association of New York City; Student National Medical Association (Region IX); American Medical Student Association (Region 2); Queens College Urban Studies Department, New Yorkers for National Health Care
Nov. 29 , 2006 (Wed.) • 7:30
pm
AFTER
THE ELECTIONS:
THE FUTURE OF MEDICARE
The Politics of Universal Health Care
U.S. Rep. John Conyers
(photo by Sarah Miller)
Hon. John Conyers, Jr.
Ranking Member, U.S. House
of Representatives Judiciary Committee
Rosanne
M. Leipzig, MD, PhD
Professor and Vice
Chair for Education, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics
and Adult Development;
Mount Sinai School of Medicine;
Deputy Editor, Geriatric Medicine (4th Edition)
Judson
Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
(accessible entrance:
243 Thompson Street)
take A, B, C, D, E, F, V trains to “West 4th St.”
R train to “8th St.” • 1 train to “Christopher St.”
RESERVATIONS
NOT REQUIRED,
BUT RSVP TO ASSURE A SPACE:
pnhpnyc@igc.org or 212-666-4001
Oct. 25, 2006 (Wed.) • 7:30
p.m.
SEVENTH ANNUAL FORUM ON MEDICAL
STUDENT ACTIVISM
• Challenges and Successes in Organizing Medical Students
Today
• How Do Free Clinics and Community Service Relate to the
Movement
for Universal Health Care?
Click here to see photos from this event.
CASSANDRA BARNETTE DONNELLY
Political Action
Liaison - Region IX, Student National Medical Association (SNMA) 3rd Year
Medical Student, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School
of Osteopathic Medicine
JAY BHATT
President, American Medical Student Association
(AMSA); Currently taking time off from his 4th year at the Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) to work with AMSA
LARA BISHAY
2nd-year
medical student at NYU working with NYU’s New York City Free Clinic as
volunteer, fundraiser, and recruiter of physician volunteers
DAVID MARCUS
Member, Board of Directors, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter;
Second Year Medical Student, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine;
Secretary, SUNY Downstate Medical Student Council Co-
Chairs: Ayana
Jordan, 4th year MD-PhD Student, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine; Member, Board of Directors, PNHP-NY Metro Chapter
Oliver Fein, MD, Chair,
PNHP-NY Metro Chapter
Beth Israel
Medical Center Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East
Second
Floor Lecture Hall (between 14th and 15th Streets) Manhattan
Sept. 27, 2006 (Wed.)
• 7:30 p.m.
Politics, the Elections and
National Health Insurance
Theodore R. Marmor, PHD
Yale University Professor of Public Policy, School
of Management; Professor, Department of Political Science; Adjunct Professor
of Law; Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation post-doctoral program in
health policy. Books include The Politics of Medicare
STANLEY ARONOWITZ, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center; University
wide officer, Professional Staff Congress (AFT), the union of faculty
and staff at CUNY. Books include Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future
Beth Israel Medical Center
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East • Second Floor Lecture Hall
(between 14th and 15th Streets),
Manhattan