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Featured Blog Post: Webinar – SNaHP COVID-19 Virtual Event April 13 Hi SNaHPers! In the midst of this pandemic many of us are wondering: How can I help? What went wrong with the US response to COVID-19? Would Medicare for All help and how? What can I do with my free time to advocate? To answer these questions and provide a space for community discussion on what is going on, (SNaHP) will be hosting a virtual event titled Student Advocacy During a Pandemic: Our Country’s Response to COVID-19 and What We Can Do to Help on Monday, April 13th at 8:00pm ET. This event will feature: Rachel Madley , SNaHP Education and Development committee co-chair and PNHP-NY Metro Fellow – COVID-19 responses around the world and within in the US Dr. Miriam Laugesen , Associate Professor Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and Thomas Jackson , former SNaHP Political Advocacy committee co-chair – US Public Health Response to COVID-19 Dr. Susan Rogers , PNHP President-Elect – COVID-19’s exposure of socioeconomic inequality and health injustice in this country Ashley Duhon , SNaHP Executive Board member – COVID-19’s effect on reproductive healthcare Ashley Lewis , SNaHP Political Advocacy committee co-chair – Next steps and how to advocate virtually Please RSVP here . Zoom meeting details will be sent out on the day of the event to all attendees who RSVP. Don’t forget to share this event with your networks, all are welcome! Featured Blog Post: Rachel Madely on Medicare for All and COVID-19 SNaHP leader Rachel Madley presented during the Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN) national conference call on March 24, 2020. She discussed our deadly failure to prepare for and fight the coronavirus pandemic, and the resources that would have been available to us under single payer. Check out an excerpt of her presentation, below. Featured Blog Post: Updated Information: SNaHP Summit 2020 We are excited to welcome you to the 2020 SNaHP Summit on Saturday, February 15 at the the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School in Aurora, Colo. (near Denver). Our theme, “Making it to the Mountaintop,” means that SNaHP is moving full speed ahead into this next decade. Online registration has closed, but on-site registration will be available Saturday, February 15 starting at 8:00 a.m. Keynote Our keynote this year is PNHP President-Elect Dr. Susan Rogers . Agenda You can find the SNaHP Summit agenda HERE with the speaker’s list HERE . N ote that in order to save paper, we will not be providing paper copies at the Summit. Instead, you will be able to scan the QR codes with your phone at the registration desk. Map A map of the school can be found HERE . We will be in the Ed2 North building, with meals being served in the “bridge.” We will have a light breakfast and boxed lunch available for attendees. And coffee. All the coffee. Dress code Come as you are. If you feel comfortable in jeans, do that. If you feel comfortable in dress slacks, do that. Article for non-POC meet up We will host separate breakout sessions for POC and non-POC SNaHPers. If you plan on attending the non-POC meet-up, please read this article in advance to be fully prepared for discussion. Out-of-town students Students who are flying in may want to share a ride with other students. Please take a look at our ride-share spreadsheet to connect with other students and coordinate ride-sharing. The scholarship window is now closed. There will be no assigned student housing this year. Instead, scholarship recipients will be given a housing stipend, which they can use at any location of their choice. The stipend will reflect general lodging prices in Aurora. Students can group up and coordinate to split housing costs using THIS spreadsheet. If you are having trouble finding a housing buddy, please reach out to organizer@pnhp.org and we can assist you. Featured Blog Post: ACTION ALERT: The A.M.A. must support Medicare for All! On June 8, 2019 , at 1:30 PM CST , students, physicians, nurses, allied health care workers, and activists from around the country will unite in Chicago to protest the annual meeting of the American Medical Association (A.M.A.). Representatives of a rapidly growing coalition of Medicare for All supporters, including National Nurses United, , Physicians for a National Health Program, People’s Action, Public Citizen, The Center for Popular Democracy, The Jane Addams Senior Caucus, various labor unions, teachers, activists, and more, will be taking a stand AGAINST corporate greed, misleading advertising, and the profit motive in health care. And FOR a system that guarantees quality health care and choice of provider for all Americans, regardless of income. Join the action against the A.M.A. at https://www.wearethewaym4a.org/ Featured Blog Post: ACTION ALERT: Justice for the police shooting of Stephanie Washington! On Tuesday, April 16th 2019, an Officer of the Yale Police Department fired his weapon during a motor vehicle stop, and the unarmed passenger, Stephanie Washington, was shot and injured. Her life is permanently changed by the trauma she experienced this day at the hands of the police. The members of know that health is more than just access to a doctor. Health is freedom from all forms of oppression and violence. To this end, we condemn acts of police brutality and stand in solidarity with Stephanie Washington, New Haven Black Lives Matter, and all others affected by this issue. Join us in supporting Yale SNaHP students demanding that the Yale Police Department and the officer involved be held accountable for the shooting of Stephanie Washington. Please sign this petition demanding reform from the Yale Police Department in light of these events: https://forms.gle/SK846Lj3nGT88f2XA Featured Blog Post: Our elected officials must support Medicare for All In late February, Seattle-area U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, introduced a “Medicare for All” bill in Congress that immediately attracted more than 100 Democratic co-sponsors. The legislation, if passed, would provide comprehensive healthcare coverage — medical, dental, prescriptions, long-term care, mental health, and more — to every resident in the United States, with no copays, premiums, or deductibles. Medicare for All is a wildly popular policy. Recent polls show that 70 percent of Americans support Medicare for All, including 85 percent of Democrats and 52 percent of Republicans. Why, then, has our Representative Cedric Richmond not co-sponsored his fellow Democrat’s bill, one that saves working families money and guarantees healthcare security to every single person in America? Perhaps he fears that Medicare for All is too pie-in-the-sky. Comprehensive, universal coverage? How could we afford something so extravagant? One estimate from Senator Bernie Sanders’ office calculated that through a combination of progressive income taxes, capital gains and dividends taxes, and limits on tax deductions for the wealthy, we could raise $1.8 trillion over 10 years without needing ...