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New York Metro Chapter - PNHP
Address: PO Box 50193, Brooklyn, NY 11205
Website: http://pnhpnymetro.org/
E-mail: pnhpnymetro@nyc.rr.com
Phone: (718) 222-9266
Fax: (718) 222-1140
Capital District (NY) Chapter
Email: pnhpcapitaldistrict@gmail.com
Finger Lakes Chapter
Website: www.pnhpfingerlakes.org
E-mail: PNHPRochester@aol.com
PNHP of Central New York
Contact: Jen Muniak
E-Mail: jennifer.muniak@gmail.com
Media Contact
Oliver Fein
212.746.4030
ofein@med.cornell.edu
Dr. Fein is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he serves as Associate Dean of Network Affairs. His work has focused on health system delivery reform. He was Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow during 1993-1994, when he worked as a legislative assistant for Senate Democratic Majority Leader, George Mitchell. He spent 17 years at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center developing ambulatory care practices. He is Chair of the NY Chapter of PNHP and Immediate Past Chair of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association.
Andrew D. Coates
518.475.4257
esquincle@capital.net
Andrew D. Coates, MD, secretary of the Capital District chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, teaches at Albany Medical College and practices internal medicine in Albany, NY. He is a member of the Public Employees Federation, AFL-CIO.
Mary O’Brien
(212) 854-9842
meo1@columbia.edu
Dr. O’Brien graduated from Harvard Medical School, trained at Columbia Presbyterian in internal medicine, and is double boarded in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. Dr. O’Brien has practiced medicine in NYC for the past 30 years and is on the faculty at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. O’Brien is on the board of NY Metro chapter of PNHP and chairs the Media/Communications Committee. She has co-edited “10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care”, a small pocket book which will be out in late July early August, 2008
Laura S. Boylan
212.263.3029
laura.boylan@med.nyu.edu
Dr. Boylan is a neurologist at Bellevue Hospital Center and the Manhattan Veteran’s Affairs Hospital. She is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine. She completed her medical training at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.
Ayana Jordan
646-418-5399
AYANA JORDAN is a fifth year MD/PhD student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Ayana had the pleasure to co-chair the past two student forums sponsored by PNHP entitled Medical Student Activism, Past, Present, and Future and MEDICAL STUDENT ACTIVISM: Reforming Healthcare Through Student Action with participation from the American Student Medical Association, Student National Medical Association, Einstein Community Health Outreach (ECHO) free clinic and New York University’s free health clinic. Currently, Ayana serves as the president for the Einstein chapter of PNHP. She looks forward to continuing the work of building partnerships between communities of color, medical students and PNHP.
Elizabeth Rosenthal | 914. 698.2190 | betsyr@optonline.net
Dr. Rosenthal is a semi-retired dermatologist in private practice in Mamaroneck, NY (Westchester County). She comes from a family of doctors and went to NYU Medical, graduated in 1967 and did my postgraduate training at several different places including Syracuse, NY, Detroit, and Boston. She has been in practice in Mamaroneck for 31 years and has also been on the volunteer faculty of Albert Einstein College of Medicine for 33 years where she supervised residents and students in the Pediatric Dermatology clinic.
State Organizations Endorsing HR676
- Ithaca, NY
- Cortland County Legislature, NY
- Ulster County, NY
Local Unions Endorsing HR676
- New York Professional Nurses Union, New York, NY
- Troy Area Labor Council, AFL-CIO, Troy, NY
- United University Professions, Local 2190 AFT, New York State United Teachers, Albany, NY
- Local 21 NABET/CWA, National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET)/Communications Workers of America (CWA), Albany, NY
- 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, MD, DC, NY State, MANew York, NY
- PEF/encon Albany Steward Council (Public Employees Federation/encon) representing Professional, Scientific and Technical employees at the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY.
- Local 1000, American Federation of Musicians (AFM), New York, NY
- Local 524, International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE), Glens Falls-Saratoga, NY
- Albany Central Federation of Labor, Albany, NY
- Solidarity Committee of the Capital District, Albany NY
- Organization of Staff Analysts (OSA/RT), New York, NY
- District Council 37, American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME)New York City, NY
- Theatrical Protective Union (TPU) Local One, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts (IATSE), New York City, Westchester and Putnam Counties
- Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation, Newburgh, NY
- Lodge 1145, IAM, Selkirk and DeWitt, NY
- Local 2334, AFT, Professional Staff Congress-CUNY, New York City, NY
- Local 1549, AFSCME, representing 19,000 clerical and administrative workers for the City ofNew York
- Local 1180, Communications Workers of America (CWA), New York, NY
- Retirees Association of District Council 37, AFSCME, New York, NY
- CIRSU, New York, NY
- Greater Glens Falls Central Labor Council, Glens Falls, NYWarren, Washington, Hamilton, and Northern Saratoga Counties
- Central New York Labor Council, Utica, NY
- Rochester and Vicinity Labor Council, Rochester, NY
- Rochester and Genesee Valley Area Labor Federation
- Transit Workers Union Local 264 (TWU)
- New York State Nurses Association
- Northeast Central Labor Council AFL-CIO, Plattsburgh, NY
- Capital District (NY) Area Labor Federation
- AFM Local 802, Association of Musicians of Greater New York
- International Union of Painters & Allied Trades District Council #4
August 6, 2008
Single Payer New York’ to be founded on Sept. 13
Albany Catholic
On Saturday, Sept. 13, single payer advocates from across New York will meet here to form a new statewide organization. Our aim: to build an unbeatable movement for a single payer public system that would fully fund comprehensive health care, including prescription drugs, for all. We invite all single-payer supporters to join us!
June 19, 2008
State Assembly points the way forward on health care
Andrew D. Coates, MD | Poughkeepsie Journal
Our critics smile at us and say that national health insurance a great idea, but they add a wink, for they believe the insurance companies are simply too rich and too powerful. The not-so-subtle message: give up and prepare for compromise with the private insurance industry. Enter the New York State Assembly, not known as a den of starry-eyed idealists, with an overwhelming vote of support for single-payer health reform.
May 12, 2008
Advocates asking for health coverage for all New Yorkers
By MARIA BRANDECKER | Legislative Gazette Staff Writer
Supporters of a single-payer health care system held a rally outside the Capitol in Albany last Tuesday urging state and federal leaders to ensure all Americans get coverage.
May 12, 2008
A New Health Care Plan…Physicians for national health program finds willing ears in Ithaca
By Karen Gadiel | Ithaca Times
A group of area physicians, frustrated by the limitations of providing health care to all who need it, recently formed a regional chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, or PNHP. “We think the time has come,” said Dr. John Paul Mead, doctor of internal medicine.
May 7, 2008
Labor, Faith, Seniors, Consumer Groups Rally at New York State Capitol in Support of Single Payer Universal Health Care
Media Release
Single payer universal health care advocates rallied today at the [New York] State Capitol in support of action at both the national and state level.
May 2, 2008
Events to target health care reform
Cathleen F. Crowley | Albany Times Union
Single-payer health care is the topic of two upcoming events in the Capital Region. Tonight, the Hudson-Mohawk May Day Committee will mark International Workers Day at Troy’s Prospect Park. The theme of the event is single-payer health care, a system where the government is the main payer for health costs, also called Medicare for all.
April 2, 2008
Health care changes sought
By CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY | Albany Times Union
A majority of doctors now think the federal government should pay for health care, according to a study in Tuesday’s Annals of Internal Medicine. Doctors and student doctors at Albany Medical College held a news conference on Tuesday to draw attention to the study and show support for a single-payer system.
February 5, 2008
GHI/HIP change could hurt health care
By RICHARD PROPP | Albany Times Union
When a health insurance company seeks for-profit status, it appears it has made a decision to fundamentally change how it operates to acquire a large infusion of cash. This fundamental change will logically result in a shift from a consumer-satisfaction priority to a shareholder-satisfaction focus.
November 29, 2007
Reforming Healthcare
WALB News
“What this movie does is really show that middle class people are in trouble too and upper middle class people. That no one is safe from the horrors of our healthcare system and the for-profit nature of the insurance companies,” Seigele says. So they’re asking Congressman Sanford Bishop to co-sponsor House Resolution 676 to guarantee health insurance to everyone and expand Medicare.
November 6, 2007
Single solution
By TIM JOSEPH | Times Union
As an elected county leader, I find that a tremendous amount of my time, and my county’s budget, is devoted to one or another aspect of health care for some segment of our citizens. Nearly all of that time is devoted not to delivering health care, but to sorting out who will pay for it. A big advantage of a single-payer system, compared with our current patchwork, is that it resolves this issue once and for all, and thus offers substantial savings in administrative costs.
August 14, 2007
Open doors to medical care to all; adopt single-payer system in U.S.
Dr. Laurence Jacobs | Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | Guest essayist
The movie Sicko has stimulated discussion of health care costs and access in the United States. Our patchwork nonsystem of competing health care insurances, with its profit motive driving denial of care and of physician choice, is clearly failing. It needs to be replaced by a more rational and humane method of assuring universal coverage and care for all our citizens.
May 1, 2007
Lack of insurance puts too many at risk
By Dr. Richard G. Younge | The Journal News
How could the health-care system change to improve care? For a start, we could make the treatment and preventive services of modern health care available to everyone. A national health insurance program that replaced our current system based on private insurers would improve access to care for the 47 million uninsured people in the United States.