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-of-network 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