Leadership Training Registration Confirmation
Thank you for registering for PNHP’s 2015 Leadership Training in Chicago. You should receive a confirmation email shortly. Should you have any questions prior to the meeting, please contact Matthew Petty at matt@pnhp.org.
Medicare at 50 – Tell us your plans!
Medicare’s 50th anniversary on July 30th gives us a special opportunity to coordinate our activities to advance the single-payer cause.
We’d love to hear how you or your chapter plan to mark the Medicare’s anniversary and to advocate for single payer during this period. Let us know about what your plans are by using this form.
Already, PNHP chapters across the country have been making plans for “Medicare birthday parties,” delegations to lawmakers’ offices in support of H.R. 676, Rep. John Conyers’ Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, community forums, rallies and marches at the end of July and early August. Healthcare-Now, National Nurses United, Public Citizen, and other allied groups are coordinating these events with PNHP chapters across the country, and we’re encouraging all chapters to reach out to our allies to coordinate any events that they are planning.
In addition, each year many PNHP members write op-eds and letters to the editor on the occasion of Medicare’s anniversary. Here are some resources to help you write your op-ed:
- Talking points for the 50th anniversary
- A brief review of the program’s history and financing prospects by Dr. Ida Hellander
- The case for an improved Medicare for All
- If you’d like editorial assistance for writing an opinion piece, please email us at info@pnhp.org.
On a national level, PNHP is also aiming to participate in a call-in day to federal lawmakers around H.R. 676 near the end of July and a Medicare anniversary event with Rep. Conyers in Washington, D.C., around the same time.
What is RNHP
Residents for a National Health Program (RNHP) is the residents and fellows section of Physicians for a National Health Program. RNHP was developed out a belief that advocacy does not stop after graduation, and that physicians-in-training are imperative to the movement for single-payer in the United States.
Get involved in RNHP by emailing the National Organizer at organizing@pnhp.org.
2015 Student Summit Materials
Presentations
Single Payer 101 | By Josh Faucher
Effective Lobby Visits | By Swathi Bhuma and Shruthi Bhuma
The Intersections of Universal Coverage and Public Health | By Ashley Cobb and Swathi Damodaran
Public Speaking for Activists | By Scott Goldberg
Organizing an Advocacy Day | By Madeline Haas, Ajay Major, Xin Guan, and Phyllis Ying
How to Frame Single Payer Arguments | By Jawad Husain
Myth Busters: Answering Difficult Questions | By Xin Guan and Danny Ash
The Unfinished Movement | By Umer Waris
Dialogue: The Intersections of Racial, Health, and Social Justice | By UIC SNMA and LMSA chapters
Handouts
Plenary Transcript
Where We’ve Been and Why We’ll Win | By Scott Goldberg
2014 Annual Meeting Materials
Highlights are available here.
Find below a selection of slideshows and handouts from PNHP’s 2014 Annual Meeting.
Photos from the Annual Meeting are available here.
2014 Annual Meeting Morning Presentation Annual Meeting Main Session
Slideshow: Grand Rounds By David Himmelstein, MD, and Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH
2014 Annual Meeting Morning Presentation (Alternate Visuals)
Annual Meeting Main Session
Slideshow: Grand Rounds By Ed Weisbart, MD
PNHP Proposal Annual Meeting Main Session
Slideshow: Beyond the ACA: A Physicians’ Proposal for Single Payer By Adam Gaffney, MD
High co-pays for speciality drugs undermine access Annual Meeting Main Session
Slideshow: How high co-pays for “specialty drugs” undermine access By Donald Light, PhD
Organizing for Single Payer in Minnesota Annual Meeting Main Session
Slideshow: Organizing for Single Payer in Minnesota By Inge De Becker, MD
Mental Health Care Workshop
Slideshow: Single payer and the crisis in mental health care By Steve Kemble, MD
Organizing in Red States Workshop
Slideshow: From Medicaid expansion to single payer: organizing in the red states By Ed Weisbart, MD, Rob Stone, MD, and Sam Dickman
International systems Workshop
Slideshow: Canada By Karen Palmer
Slideshow: Korea By Mira Lee, MD
Slideshow: New Zealand By Carol Paris, MD
State-based campaigns Workshop
Slideshow: Washington By David McLanahan, MD
Slideshow: California By Steve Tarzynski, MD, MPH
Talking about single payer in the wards Workshop
Slideshow: Speak up: talking about single payer in the wards By Anna Zelivianskaia and Desireé Conrad
Getting your message across in the media Workshop
Slideshow: Getting your message in print, radio, and TV By Mark Almberg, Sam Metz, MD, and Betsy Rosenthal, MD
Medicare and the VA Workshop
Slideshow: Medicare: a single-payer system in “crisis”? By Oli Fein, MD
Big Pharma’s growing threat to the health system Workshop
Slideshow: Pharmaceutical sector and single payer reform By Robert Kemp, PhD, and Donald Light, PhD
Mistreating health inequities Annual Meeting Dinner Session
Slideshow: Mistreating health inequities: The new biopolitics of race, health, and justice By Dorothy Roberts, JD
2014 Annual Meeting Materials
Highlights are available here.
Find below a selection of slideshows and handouts from PNHP’s 2014 Annual Meeting.
Photos from the Annual Meeting are available here.
2014 Annual Meeting Morning Presentation Annual Meeting Main Session
Slideshow: Grand Rounds By David Himmelstein, MD, and Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH
2014 Annual Meeting Morning Presentation (Alternate Visuals)
Annual Meeting Main Session
Slideshow: Grand Rounds By Ed Weisbart, MD
PNHP Proposal Annual Meeting Main Session
Slideshow: Beyond the ACA: A Physicians’ Proposal for Single Payer By Adam Gaffney, MD
High co-pays for speciality drugs undermine access Annual Meeting Main Session
Slideshow: How high co-pays for “specialty drugs” undermine access By Donald Light, PhD
Organizing for Single Payer in Minnesota Annual Meeting Main Session
Slideshow: Organizing for Single Payer in Minnesota By Inge De Becker, MD
Mental Health Care Workshop
Slideshow: Single payer and the crisis in mental health care By Steve Kemble, MD
Organizing in Red States Workshop
Slideshow: From Medicaid expansion to single payer: organizing in the red states By Ed Weisbart, MD, Rob Stone, MD, and Sam Dickman
International systems Workshop
Slideshow: Canada By Karen Palmer
Slideshow: Korea By Mira Lee, MD
Slideshow: New Zealand By Carol Paris, MD
State-based campaigns Workshop
Slideshow: Washington By David McLanahan, MD
Slideshow: California By Steve Tarzynski, MD, MPH
Talking about single payer in the wards Workshop
Slideshow: Speak up: talking about single payer in the wards By Anna Zelivianskaia and Desireé Conrad
Getting your message across in the media Workshop
Slideshow: Getting your message in print, radio, and TV By Mark Almberg, Sam Metz, MD, and Betsy Rosenthal, MD
Medicare and the VA Workshop
Slideshow: Medicare: a single-payer system in “crisis”? By Oli Fein, MD
Big Pharma’s growing threat to the health system Workshop
Slideshow: Pharmaceutical sector and single payer reform By Robert Kemp, PhD, and Donald Light, PhD
Mistreating health inequities Annual Meeting Dinner Session
Slideshow: Mistreating health inequities: The new biopolitics of race, health, and justice By Dorothy Roberts, JD
SNaHP Leadership Team Chair Position
Description:
The PNHP Student Board Representatives are accepting nominations and self-nominations for Chair positions on the SNaHP Leadership Teams. Three Chair positions are available for the three teams: Education & Base Building Chair, Political Advocacy Chair, and Coalition Building Chair.
The SNaHP Leadership Chairs will serve as point-people for the PNHP Student Board Representatives and the PNHP Board of Directors on their respective teams. Responsibilities will be to assist the National Organizer in setting the team’s call agenda, facilitation of regular conference calls, and assisting the Student Board Representatives in creating the programming for the annual SNaHP Summit. Other duties include creative brainstorming of projects for the Chair’s respective teams and leadership identification of promising health professional student leaders.
Time Commitment:
The SNaHP Leadership Team Chairs must be able to participate in approximately one conference call per month (with flexibility, depending on the team’s current projects) and four planning calls for the SNaHP Summit. Total time commitment expected is approximately two hours per month. It is strongly encouraged that the Chairs be available to attend and take a leadership role in the annual SNaHP Summit (February 14, 2015).
The term length of this position is one calendar year, from November to November. Please send nominations or self-nominations with an optional statement of interest (no more than 200 words please) to organizer@pnhp.org no later than Sunday, October 5 at 11:59pm.
Eligibility:
SNaHP Leadership Team Chairs must be a current health professional student. Students do not need to have extensive experience with PNHP, but must have enthusiasm about national movement-building for single payer. Forward-thinking, creative students who are eager to suggest and implement new ideas are encouraged to self-nominate. Students of color, women, LGBTQ, and of diverse class background are also particularly encouraged to apply.
Join a SNaHP Leadership Team
Get active in the national student movement for single payer by joining a Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) Leadership Team. SNaHP is the student arm of PNHP, born out of the annual SNaHP Summit each Spring in Chicago.
Any student member of PNHP can join a SNaHP Leadership Team. The teams are made up of medical and health professional students from around the country who schedule monthly conference calls to coordinate regional and national initiatives.
There are three teams:
Education and Base Building Team
The Education and Base Building Team exists to help grow the student membership in PNHP and organize and support emerging SNaHP chapters.
Political Advocacy Team
This team focuses on coordinating advocacy for national single payer legislation, and also works to assist local SNaHP chapters to coordinate local lobby days and develop localized campaigns.
Coalition Building Team
The Coalition Building Team functions in tandem with the other teams to develop and deepen the relationship between PNHP and other like-minded medical student organizations.
Media Team
The Media Team is a core group of dedicated students who work on the essential communications and social media within SNaHP. Media team members work with the Political Advocacy team and PNHP leaders to write press releases, interface with media, and edit the SNaHP blog.
Contact organizer@pnhp.org if you are interested in joining any of the SNaHP Leadership teams, or if you would like to learn more!