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Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition - NYC based coalition of grassroots organizations demanding Medicare for All Americans NOW!
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Health Care Forum
Astorians for Peace and Justice and the West Queens Greens present A Forum on Health Care Reform
Health Care for All:Are We Almost There?
Thursday, July 29th at 7:30pm Location: Bohemian Hall, 29-19 24th Avenue between 31st and 29th Streets in Astoria. Take the N or Q train to Astoria Blvd. When you leave the train station, walk north to 24th Avenue and turn left. The building will be on your right. Dr Mary O'Brien is a primary care physician at Columbia University who has been practicing medicine in NYC for the past 30 years and has been a strong advocate for single payer health care through her work with NY Metro Physicians for a National Health Program.
Ajamu Sankofa, Esq. is a co-founder and chair of the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition, a NYC-based grassroots organization demanding a national single-payer healthcare system. He also coordinates the Urban Leadership Program at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies/CUNY and is a graduate instructor in urban affairs at Queens College. Mr. Sankofa is a former trial lawyer with the ACLU National Prison Project where he wrote the first model HIV Prevention Policy in the nation for incarcerated youth while representing prisoners throughout the United States on their conditions of confinement.
Mark Hannay is Director of the Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, a citywide coalition of community groups and labor unions founded in 1993 that advocates for fundamental health care reform leading to a universal health care program. Mark began his health activist career in the early 1990s as a member of the Insurance and Health Care Access Committee of ACT UP/New York. Since 2002, Mark has also co-hosted the weekly “Health Action” program broadcast over WBAI/Pacifica radio. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of “Health Care for All New York”, a consortium of groups across New York State working for state-based health care reform. He serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Contact: maryannlewis@earthlink.net for more information
Health Care for All:Are We Almost There?
Thursday, July 29th at 7:30pm Location: Bohemian Hall, 29-19 24th Avenue between 31st and 29th Streets in Astoria. Take the N or Q train to Astoria Blvd. When you leave the train station, walk north to 24th Avenue and turn left. The building will be on your right. Dr Mary O'Brien is a primary care physician at Columbia University who has been practicing medicine in NYC for the past 30 years and has been a strong advocate for single payer health care through her work with NY Metro Physicians for a National Health Program.
Ajamu Sankofa, Esq. is a co-founder and chair of the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition, a NYC-based grassroots organization demanding a national single-payer healthcare system. He also coordinates the Urban Leadership Program at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies/CUNY and is a graduate instructor in urban affairs at Queens College. Mr. Sankofa is a former trial lawyer with the ACLU National Prison Project where he wrote the first model HIV Prevention Policy in the nation for incarcerated youth while representing prisoners throughout the United States on their conditions of confinement.
Mark Hannay is Director of the Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, a citywide coalition of community groups and labor unions founded in 1993 that advocates for fundamental health care reform leading to a universal health care program. Mark began his health activist career in the early 1990s as a member of the Insurance and Health Care Access Committee of ACT UP/New York. Since 2002, Mark has also co-hosted the weekly “Health Action” program broadcast over WBAI/Pacifica radio. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of “Health Care for All New York”, a consortium of groups across New York State working for state-based health care reform. He serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Contact: maryannlewis@earthlink.net for more information
Medicare's 45th Birthday
Medicare's 45th birthday is July 30!
Friday, July 30, 12:30 pm
In commemoration of this special day, the Healthcare-NOW! NYC Chapter is officially launching with an action aimed at not only celebrating Medicare but also coordinating against the pending attack on Medicare by the federal Deficit Commission.
Healthcare NOW! is doing a "Flash Mob" -- a choreographed dance number to celebrate Medicare's 45th birthday.
We'd love as many of you to join the dance as possible, but you do not HAVE to dance to participate. Supporters are welcome and expected!
If you're interested in participating either as a performer (we need performers!) or as a supporter, please contact us ASAP. RSVP to Jean Fox at jeanmaryfox@yahoo.com, 917-280-7279.
DANCE REHEARSAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 6:30 PM at 55 Bethune St. apt. 1108 (corner of Bethune and Washington, one block south of West 12th Street and one block east of the West Side Highway. RSVP to bagarson@yahoo.com Wondering why we're doing a dance mob? 'Cause it's fun and gets the message across. Get inspired by --
- This action in San Francisco AND
- This action in Antwerp
and discover how fun this is going to be!
Friday, July 30, 12:30 pm
In commemoration of this special day, the Healthcare-NOW! NYC Chapter is officially launching with an action aimed at not only celebrating Medicare but also coordinating against the pending attack on Medicare by the federal Deficit Commission.
Healthcare NOW! is doing a "Flash Mob" -- a choreographed dance number to celebrate Medicare's 45th birthday.
We'd love as many of you to join the dance as possible, but you do not HAVE to dance to participate. Supporters are welcome and expected!
If you're interested in participating either as a performer (we need performers!) or as a supporter, please contact us ASAP. RSVP to Jean Fox at jeanmaryfox@yahoo.com, 917-280-7279.
DANCE REHEARSAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 6:30 PM at 55 Bethune St. apt. 1108 (corner of Bethune and Washington, one block south of West 12th Street and one block east of the West Side Highway. RSVP to bagarson@yahoo.com Wondering why we're doing a dance mob? 'Cause it's fun and gets the message across. Get inspired by --
- This action in San Francisco AND
- This action in Antwerp
and discover how fun this is going to be!
Health Care Forum
Astorians for Peace and Justice and the West Queens Greens present A Forum on Health Care Reform
Health Care for AllAre We Almost There?
Thursday, July 29th at 7:30pm Location: Bohemian Hall, 29-19 24th Avenue between 31st and 29th Streets in Astoria. Take the N or Q train to Astoria Blvd. When you leave the train station, walk north to 24th Avenue and turn left. The building will be on your right. Dr Mary O'Brien is a primary care physician at Columbia University who has been practicing medicine in NYC for the past 30 years and has been a strong advocate for single payer health care through her work with NY Metro Physicians for a National Health Program.
Ajamu Sankofa, Esq. is a co-founder and chair of the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition, a NYC-based grassroots organization demanding a national single-payer healthcare system. He also coordinates the Urban Leadership Program at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies/CUNY and is a graduate instructor in urban affairs at Queens College. Mr. Sankofa is a former trial lawyer with the ACLU National Prison Project where he wrote the first model HIV Prevention Policy in the nation for incarcerated youth while representing prisoners throughout the United States on their conditions of confinement.
Mark Hannay is Director of the Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, a citywide coalition of community groups and labor unions founded in 1993 that advocates for fundamental health care reform leading to a universal health care program. Mark began his health activist career in the early 1990s as a member of the Insurance and Health Care Access Committee of ACT UP/New York. Since 2002, Mark has also co-hosted the weekly “Health Action” program broadcast over WBAI/Pacifica radio. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of “Health Care for All New York”, a consortium of groups across New York State working for state-based health care reform. He serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Contact: maryannlewis@earthlink.net for more information
Health Care for AllAre We Almost There?
Thursday, July 29th at 7:30pm Location: Bohemian Hall, 29-19 24th Avenue between 31st and 29th Streets in Astoria. Take the N or Q train to Astoria Blvd. When you leave the train station, walk north to 24th Avenue and turn left. The building will be on your right. Dr Mary O'Brien is a primary care physician at Columbia University who has been practicing medicine in NYC for the past 30 years and has been a strong advocate for single payer health care through her work with NY Metro Physicians for a National Health Program.
Ajamu Sankofa, Esq. is a co-founder and chair of the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition, a NYC-based grassroots organization demanding a national single-payer healthcare system. He also coordinates the Urban Leadership Program at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies/CUNY and is a graduate instructor in urban affairs at Queens College. Mr. Sankofa is a former trial lawyer with the ACLU National Prison Project where he wrote the first model HIV Prevention Policy in the nation for incarcerated youth while representing prisoners throughout the United States on their conditions of confinement.
Mark Hannay is Director of the Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, a citywide coalition of community groups and labor unions founded in 1993 that advocates for fundamental health care reform leading to a universal health care program. Mark began his health activist career in the early 1990s as a member of the Insurance and Health Care Access Committee of ACT UP/New York. Since 2002, Mark has also co-hosted the weekly “Health Action” program broadcast over WBAI/Pacifica radio. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of “Health Care for All New York”, a consortium of groups across New York State working for state-based health care reform. He serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.
Contact: maryannlewis@earthlink.net for more information
Pitching Single Payer
Ever get stuck when asked a question about Single Payer? Ever hear a talk that makes everything clear and then couldn't explain the idea?
Practice answering questions about Single Payer. See how others respond to questions. Then, go to Bryant Park, only a block away, and practice on the public.
Light refreshments.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
25 West 43rd Street, 18th floor
Manhattan
Any questions, you can call Paul: 347-278-4267
Otherwise, just show up, bring friends, bring doubters.
Mid-June Announcements
SUNDAY JUNE 27
MANHATTAN GAY PRIDE MARCH
The pride march commemorates the Stonewall Riots that sparked the movement for gay liberation in the United States.
TIME AND EXACT MEET UP LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED.
To join us, please RSVP to jeanmaryfox@yahoo.com.
Watch the fabulous video of the PHIMG/ACT-UP/PNHP contingent from last year's march. --------------------------
TUESDAY JULY 6
7:00 PM
PHIMG WORKING MEETING
We will be discussing strategy and planning upcoming events.
Work with us to get health care for all.
25 W. 43rd Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY
Wheelchair accessible.
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FRIDAY JULY 30
MEDICARE’S 45TH ANNIVERSARY ACTION
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SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEW AND IMPROVED MEMBER LISTSERV
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MANHATTAN GAY PRIDE MARCH
The pride march commemorates the Stonewall Riots that sparked the movement for gay liberation in the United States.
TIME AND EXACT MEET UP LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED.
To join us, please RSVP to jeanmaryfox@yahoo.com.
Watch the fabulous video of the PHIMG/ACT-UP/PNHP contingent from last year's march. --------------------------
TUESDAY JULY 6
7:00 PM
PHIMG WORKING MEETING
We will be discussing strategy and planning upcoming events.
Work with us to get health care for all.
25 W. 43rd Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY
Wheelchair accessible.
--------------------------
FRIDAY JULY 30
MEDICARE’S 45TH ANNIVERSARY ACTION
--------------------------
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEW AND IMPROVED MEMBER LISTSERV
(Share and receive news and videos of interest to the Medicare for All activist community.)
Visit
http://groups.google.com/group/phimg
Or send an e-mail to
phimg+subscribe@googlegroups.com (copy and paste this entire line)
5 Painful health-care lessons from Massachusetts
By Shawn Tully, Fortune MagazineThe best guide to how President Obama's historic health-care legislation will reshape the nation's medical marketplace and fiscal future is the pioneering model in Massachusetts. The Bay State's reform program started in late 2006, and it shares virtually all the major features of the new federal plan.
Both programs greatly expand Medicaid coverage for low-earners, and provide heavily subsidized policies for a broad swath of the middle class. They tightly restrict the range of premiums for customers of different ages and medical conditions; they bar insurers from charging older patients, or even coach potatoes who abuse their health, anywhere near their actual cost. Both plans impose a long list of expensive benefits insurers must provide whether patients want to pay for them or not, ranging in Massachusetts from in-vitro fertilization to chiropractic services.
At the same time the plans offer lavish subsidies that swell the demand for health care, they do nothing to increase the supply of medical services in a market suffering from shortages of everything from family doctors to nurses to hospital beds. Two years after enacting health-care reform to rein in costs, Massachusetts strengthened "certificate of need laws" that prevent hospitals and other providers from competing with high-cost, entrenched suppliers. The state now requires that ambulatory surgical centers and outpatient treatment facilities get permission from regulators before they can enter the market. Their rivals invariably lobby the regulators to block competition, and usually win.
Both programs greatly expand Medicaid coverage for low-earners, and provide heavily subsidized policies for a broad swath of the middle class. They tightly restrict the range of premiums for customers of different ages and medical conditions; they bar insurers from charging older patients, or even coach potatoes who abuse their health, anywhere near their actual cost. Both plans impose a long list of expensive benefits insurers must provide whether patients want to pay for them or not, ranging in Massachusetts from in-vitro fertilization to chiropractic services.
At the same time the plans offer lavish subsidies that swell the demand for health care, they do nothing to increase the supply of medical services in a market suffering from shortages of everything from family doctors to nurses to hospital beds. Two years after enacting health-care reform to rein in costs, Massachusetts strengthened "certificate of need laws" that prevent hospitals and other providers from competing with high-cost, entrenched suppliers. The state now requires that ambulatory surgical centers and outpatient treatment facilities get permission from regulators before they can enter the market. Their rivals invariably lobby the regulators to block competition, and usually win.
June-Sept. Monthly Meeting Dates
Our monthly membership "working" meetings have been scheduled:
Tuesday June 15th, 7pm
Tuesday July 6th, 7pm
Sunday September 12th, 3pm
Location for all meetings is - 25 W 43rd Street, 18th Floor - Wheelchair Accessible
For more information please email info@phimg.org
PLEASE NOTE OUR AUGUST 3 MEETING IS CANCELLED.
Next PHIMG Meeting - May 23rd
WHEN:
Sunday, May 23, 3pm
WHERE: 25 W. 43rd Street, 18th floor
Venue is wheelchair accessible.
Sunday, May 23, 3pm
WHERE: 25 W. 43rd Street, 18th floor
Venue is wheelchair accessible.
