Healthcare Under Attack in 2025: How We Fight Back & Advance Single Payer!

Please SAVE THE DATE – Tuesday, January 28, 2025 @ 7:30pm – for PNHP NY Metro’s first forum of the new year Healthcare Under Attack in 2025: How We Fight Back & Advance Single Payer!

We’ll develop the discussion we began in our September forum, available here on the Past Forums page of our website, about the impact of the incoming presidential administration on our healthcare system and public health federally, and ways we can push back at the state level, focusing also on some of our communities most at risk. 

We’ll also have the opportunity to collectively plan engagement and actions, and discuss how to resist and protect our most vulnerable community members. 

The forum will take place at the usual time of 7:30pm. A link to register and additional information including speakers and what else to expect will be sent out after the New Year. 

In the meantime, below are some actions and resources:

Action items:

• Sign the Online petition from the Coalition on Human Needs to “Tell Congress: Reject Medicaid cuts that will pay for more tax cuts for the rich”.

• Click here to send letters to your U.S. Senators opposing the nomination of RFK Jr. for HHS Secretary. And sign on here to a collective letter to all U.S. Senators, and garner signatures from as many individuals as possible, by the end of the day on December 18th, organized by Defending Public Health.

• Sign the NY Health Act Individual Sign On Letter, and organizations, the Organizational Sign On Letter. You can also sign up to help deliver the letters in January in Albany with the Campaign for NY Health.

• Join us in Albany on January 14th to rally for the New York Health Act outside of Governor Hochul’s State of the State Address with PNHP NY Metro & partnering organizations.
• Share your healthcare story with us, in support of the New York Health Act & Medicare for All. Have you been denied care, rationed medications because of costs, set up or contributed to a medical GoFundMe, argued with insurers for hours for care? Whatever your story, you’re not alone. We want to hear from you.
• Sign PNHP National’s petition calling for healthcare that prioritizes people, not profits: www.pnhp.org/OurDemands

Resources:

• Georgetown University Report “Congressional Republican Leaders Start to Show Their Hand: Draconian Medicaid Cuts on the Agenda for Next Year”

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities  Report “Medicaid Threats in the Upcoming Congress”

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities  Report “[ACA] Premium Tax Credit Improvements Must Be Extended to Prevent Steep Rise in Health Care Costs”

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities  Blog post “Trump, Republican Congress Health Care Proposals Could Pose Risks to Access and Affordability”

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities  Press Statement “Republican Economic Proposals Would Harm the People Trump Promised to Help”

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities  Report  “House Republican Agendas and Project 2025 Would Increase Poverty and Hardship, Drive Up the Uninsured Rate, and Disinvest From People, Communities, and the Economy”

News stories:

• Health Care Dive  “Democrats question Oz over Medicare Advantage advocacy, UnitedHealth stock”

• Health Care Dive  “New bipartisan legislation would force insurers, PBMs to sell pharmacy businesses”

In solidarity, 

Morgan Moore
Executive Director
Physicians for a National Health Program – NY Metro Chapter