HEALTHCARE FORUM ON THE NEW YORK HEALTH ACT AND HOW IT WILL HELP NEW YORKERS (FREE)

District 17 Healthcare Forum: The New York Health Act
Sunday, March 4th, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

New York State can pass a bill that guarantees healthcare for all. As healthcare costs continue to rise, many people are uninsured, underinsured, or trapped in restrictive and confusing networks.

Learn about the New York Health Act on Sunday, March 4th, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Borough Park Library. Find out what it is, how it would benefit you and the community, and which of our legislators can get universal, single payer healthcare passed so that everyone in New York State has coverage.

Presentations will run from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session.

This event is free, open to the public, and wheelchair-accessible. RSVP here.
 
Participating in the forum are healthcare advocates from the community and speaker Dr. Oliver Fein, practicing general internist, chair of Physicians for a National Health Program, NY Metro Chapter, and past president of PNHP.

Fein is also professor of clinical medicine and clinical public health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He serves there as associate dean responsible for the Office of Affiliations and the Office of Global Health Education. He is the immediate past vice-president of the American Public Health Association.

The forum is sponsored by NY Senate District 17 for Progress and HEAL NY: Healthcare Equity Action League of New York.

Location
Borough Park Library
lower level (accessible by elevator)
1265 43rd Street
between 12th and 13th avenues
Borough Park, Brooklyn

COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE PLAN WILL COVER ALL NEW YORKERS--IF THE STATE SENATE WILL ALLOW US TO HAVE IT

Public Forum on Health Care for All New Yorkers

Sunday, January 7th, 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

At the national level, essential health care coverage for Americans is being undermined. The Affordable Care Act may not survive. Fortunately, we in New York State can rely on our state government to provide us with a health care plan that will comprehensively cover every one of us. Or can we?

Under the New York Health Act (NYHA), everyone in New York State would have all of their medical expenses covered. No co-pays, deductibles, or premiums would be required.

Patients could see any doctor they want to because networks would cease to exist. Valid claims wouldn't be denied because private insurance companies wouldn't be overseeing our health care.

We would be covered for primary care, specialists, hospitalization, dental, vision, prescriptions, reproductive health care, mental health, medical supplies, and preventative care.

Health care would be publicly financed:

"Coverage would be funded through a graduated assessment on payroll and non-payroll taxable income, based on ability to pay. For 98% of New Yorkers, it will be a substantial reduction in what they now spend." (http://nyhealthact.com/)

Thirty-one Democratic State Senators are in favor of the NYHA and are sponsoring it. Thirty-one Republican State Senators and the one Democrat (Simcha Felder) who caucuses with the Republicans are opposed to it.

Our State Assembly has passed the NYHA three times.

BUT THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS AND SIMCHA FELDER WON'T LET THE NYHA BE RELEASED FROM THE HEALTH COMMITTEE SO THAT THE FULL SENATE CAN VOTE ON IT.

At a public forum on the New York Health Act, find out what New Yorkers can do to help get this bill passed in the upcoming legislative session.

The public forum will be on Sunday, January 7th. The program will run from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., followed by conversation and refreshments until 6:00 p.m.

Location
Pakistani-American Youth Society
1001 Newkirk Avenue
between Coney Island Avenue and Westminster Road
Kensington / Midwood, Brooklyn

PROGRESSIVES IN SENATE DISTRICT 17, WHICH IS REPRESENTED BY SIMCHA FELDER, WILL MEET AND PLAN

General Meeting of New York Senate District 17 for Progress

Sunday, November 19th, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Learn about New York Senate District 17 for Progress' focus for the upcoming legislative session in Albany. Help the grassroots group build its strategies for promoting and lobbying on behalf of issues that are important to residents of District 17.

The neighborhoods in District 17 are Borough Park, Midwood, and Brooklyn Chinatown and parts of Sunset Park, Kensington, Bensonhurst, and Gravesend.

Since 2012, State Senate District 17 has been represented by Simcha Felder. Right after he was first elected, the registered Democrat informed his constituents that he would be caucusing with the Republicans, not with his own party. That political stance advantages the Republican Party in the Senate.

Agenda

• Ross Barkan, Democratic candidate in 2018 for State Senate District 22, will talk about the Senate's Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)--a group of eight Democratic senators who are in a coalition with the Republican senators. Barkan will also talk about running as a progressive in South Brooklyn.
• See the initial draft of the group's mission statement. This will be the last opportunity to attend a meeting, which will make you eligible to vote on the mission statement.
• Discuss what the group will focus on in the upcoming legislative session. Name the most important or immediate problems in your lives and which issues you'd want the group to focus on.
• Hear about the various projects that people in the group have been working on. Volunteer to help, if you can.

The meeting is free and open to the public and will be held on Sunday, November 19th, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Location
1016 Beverley Road
between Coney Island Avenue and Stratford Road
Brooklyn