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Unionists HEAT up drive for universal healthcare Click here to join the campaign Join the "Health Care for America NOW!" campaign La coalición por atención médica movilizará a millones DC 37 says: Health Care for America Now! Click here to sign a national petition, print fact sheets and more…

Demand Additional NYS Health Care Funding!

The city and state financial crises are hitting the nation's premier public hospital system, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., which provided medical care for some 450,000 uninsured New Yorkers in 2008. HHC announced in March 2009 that it faces a budget gap of at least $316 million in fiscal year 2010, which starts July 1. Union leaders and health care activists took the fight to Albany on May 5, DC 37 Lobby Day, to press the state Legislature for more money.

Our communities can't afford more cuts in hospital funding. Additional funds are needed!

Please call your New York State legislator at 1-877-255-9417. Ask your legislator to:

• Provide additional state funding to address HHC's $1 billion structural budget gap,
• Give HHC additional funding for the full cost of caring for uninsured patients and
  
• Provide transitional funding to HHC to make the shift to the new hospital inpatient payment system.

For a copy of the DC 37 Lobby Day talking points on HHC, please click here. (PDF*)


Get Involved

HEAT activists from DC 37 and other public hospital unions are part of the grassroots fight for better health care in our communities. To learn more and get involved, click on the links below.

• Get Involved: HEAT Brochure and Sign-up (PDF*)
• AFSCME Info on National Health Care Reform

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