ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON HEALTH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING SUBJECT: The New York Health bill to create state single payer health coverage
PURPOSE: To receive testimony concerning the New York Health bill
SYRACUSE Thursday, Dec. 4, 10 AM Medical Alumni Auditorium, Weiskotten Hall Upstate Medical University 766 Irving Avenue ROCHESTER Monday, Dec. 8, 10 AM NEW LOCATION City Council Chambers, Rochester City Hall, 3rd Floor, "A" Building, 30 Church Street, Rochester, New York BUFFALO Wednesday, Dec. 10,10 AM Hohn Auditorium Roswell Park Cancer Institute Research Studies Center Elm & Carlton Street
NEW YORK CITY Tuesday, Dec. 16, 10 AM New York University Grand Hall, 5th Floor Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life 238 Thompson Street MINEOLA Wednesday, Dec. 17, 10 AM Nassau County Legislative Chamber
Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building 1550 Franklin Avenue ALBANY Tuesday, Jan. 13, 10 AM Hearing Room B Legislative Office Building
"New York Health", a universal "single payer" health coverage bill, would replace insurance company coverage, premiums, deductibles, co-pays, limited provider networks and out-ofnetwork charges. Instead, it would provide comprehensive, universal health coverage for every New Yorker, with a benefit package more comprehensive than commercial or other health plans, with full choices of doctors and other providers. The program would be funded by broad-based taxes based on ability to pay. It would eliminate the local share of Medicaid (which would become part of New York Health). The bill, A.5389-A/S.2078-A, was introduced by Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard N. Gottfried and Senator Bill Perkins. This series of public hearings around the state will review the effects and costs of the current health coverage system on patients, health care providers, employers, labor, taxpayers and health Ten copies of any prepared testimony should be submitted at the hearing registration desk. The Committee would appreciate advance receipt of prepared statements. In order to meet the needs of those who may have a disability, the Assembly, in accordance with its policy of non-discrimination on the basis of disability, as well as the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), has made its facilities and services available to all individuals with disabilities. For individuals with disabilities, accommodations will be provided, upon reasonable request, to afford such individuals access and admission to Assembly facilities and activities. Richard N. Gottfried Member of Assembly Chair Committee on Health List of Witnesses 1) Lieutenant Gary Pudup Career Police Officer 2) Kim Ramos Metro Justice 3) Barbara Dyskant
4) Dr. Theodore Brown, Ph.D. Professor of History, Medical Humanities, & Public Health Sciences at the University of Rochester; History Editor, American Journal of Public Health 5) Larry Knox Political/Communications Director 1199 Service Employees International Union 6) Dr. Leon Zoghlan Co-President Finger Lakes Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program 7) Rev. Dr. Richard S. Gilbert President Interfaith Impact of New York State 8) Naomi Pless, MD 9) Paula Hansen President Metro Justice 10) Carl Fitzsimmons 11) Janet Gelein Co-Chair of Metro Justice's Elder Justice Committee 12) Robert Thompson Small business owner Period Style Artwork 13) Josef Bartels Medical and Public Health Student University of Rochester 14) Meg Grindrod Certified Nurse Practitioner 15) Michael King Principal Century Benefits Group, Inc. 16) Tim Munier RN at University of Rochester Medical Center Volunteer at Metro Justice
17) George Payne Founder & Director Gandhi Earthkeepers International 18) Ann Pindar 19) Carole Hoffman 20) William McCoy Metro Justice 21) Jack Spula Metro Justice 22) Shalom Schlagman Medical Student University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Class of 2017 23) Diana Pryntz 24) Joy Marsh 25) Rev. James L. Swarts Veterans for Peace 26) Richard Moore