Assembly Bill A6058 Senate Bill S5774
PNHP video for Focus on Legislation: The New York Health Act and Ending Medical Debt
Text of the NY Health Act
Michael Lighty. “States Now Hold the Key to Making Medicare for All a Reality.” In These Times, January 27, 2022. https://inthesetimes.com/article/medicare-for-all-single-payer-healthcare-california-new-york.
Labor and Health Care
Some Unions support the New York Health Act (SEIU/1199, CWA 1180, UAW 1097) while others oppose it or only give lukewarm support (CSEA, NYSUT). Labor activists have been meeting with legislators and labor in general to improve the act and build support for it.
Rochester Labor Council Labor Lyceum on “Labor and the New York Health Act” video.
Major Concerns in Opposition to the New York Health Act from the New York State Public Employee Conference
General Reading on Single Payer Health Insurance
Physicians for a National Health Program: About Single Payer
PNPH: A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US
Medicare for All A Citizen’s Guide by Abdul El-Sayed & Micah Johnson
Sickening How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It by John Abramson
The Privatization of Everything by Donald Cohen & Allen Mikaelian