Mark your calendars, and save this date!
Wednesday, February 22, 5:30 to 7 p.m. — Online
Our 2022 Health Care Justice Leader Annual Gala is happening!
(Yes, we’re a bit behind and already into 2023, but we’re celebrating good work in 2022 nevertheless!)
Keynote Address:
Kamini Doobay, MD; Founder, New York City Coalition to Dismantle Racism in the Health System
Honoree for Lifetime Achievement:
Richard Gottfried, New York State Assembly (ret.)
Joint Honorees for Leadership to Lower Rx Drug Prices and Costs:
- AARP-New York
- New York State Alliance for Retired Americans
- New York Statewide Senior Action Council
Joint Honorees for Hospital Unions Fighting for Better Patient Care:
- Committee of Interns and Residents, SEIU
- ·New York State Nurses Association, NNU
- ·1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
Joint Honorees for Collaborations to Improve Hospital-Based Care:
- Coalition for Affordable Hospitals
- Community Coalition for the Safety Net
- Community Voices for Health System Accountability
- End Medical Debt
- Montefiore Bronx Accountability Coalition
MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUPPORT OUR ANNUAL GALA HERE:
HERE’S OUR REQUESTED/SUGGESTED DONATION LEVELS:
- Individuals: $100 (or whatever you can contribute)
- Very large unions: $1,500 or more (10+ comp tickets)
- Large groups and unions: $1,000 or more (6+ comp tickets)
- Medium-size groups and unions: $600 or more ((4 comp tickets)
- Small groups and unions: $300 or more (2 comp tickets)
All organization and union supporters will be listed on the Host Committee.
Zoom connection information will be sent once donations are made, on the day before and day of the Gala. Deadline is 3 p.m. Wed. Feb. 22nd.
Here’s how we’ll put your donations to work in this year – We are fighting to…
- Stop Congress from slashing Medicare and Medicaid.
- Improve Traditional Medicare by adding dental, vision, and hearing benefits, and capping co-pays and deductibles.
- Stop the #MedicareAdvantage rip-off of patients and taxpayers by #BigInsurance.
- Stop #BigPharma’s abuse of the patent system that keep Rx drug prices sky-high.
- Move universal health care bills forward in Congress and the State Legislature.
- Expand public coverage to all low-income New Yorkers regardless of immigration status.
- Remove senseless barriers that prevent some low-income people on Medicare from getting a Medicaid wrap-around.
- Improve New York’s Hospital Financial Assistance program to prevent patients from incurring medical debt they simply cannot pay off.
- Make hospitals more responsive and accountable to the local communities they serve.
- Improve insurance company provider networks to make them broader and deeper.
Thanks for stepping forward to make sure that we have the resources to “do what we gotta’ do” in 2023!
We look forward to you joining us online to hear some words of inspiration, and celebrate some “good work” and “good trouble” undertaken in 2022 by health care justice leaders.