Join with fellow New Yorkers as we hit the streets once again to:

• Celebrate the successes and popularity of Medicare and Medicaid on their 60th anniversary!
• Commit ourselves to protecting, improving, and expanding both of these programs.
• Call on our state leaders to gather right away this coming fall to prevent and mitigate the very real harms that will soon fall upon us, our families, and our communities under the new, horrendous federal tax cut law.

We'll be gathering in Foley Square at 5:30 p.m. on Wed. July 30th, and then march down Broadway to City Hall Park. On the way, we'll stop in front of 250 Broadway where some of our state and city leaders have their offices, to demand they act promptly to protect New Yorkers' health insurance coverage and our health care system by enacting a Medicare-for-All-style universal health care program. Be sure to bring signs and banners, and friends and family!

Partner groups [list in formation]:

• ACT UP/New York
• Ancient Song Doula Services
• Campaign for New York Health
• Center for Independence of the Disabled New York
• Coalition for Asian-American Children and Families
• Common Cause NY
• Commission on the Public's Health System in NYC
• Cross-Union Retiree Organizing Committee
• Health Care for America Now, New York State Network
• Health Care Workers for Zohran
• Housing Works
• Indivisible Brooklyn
• Metro New York Health Care For All
• Movement of Rank & File Educators (MORE-UFT)
• National Association of Social Workers - NY Chapter
• Northwest Bronx Indivisible
• NYC Queer Activists
• #NYDocs Coalition
• Peace Action of Staten Island
• Physicians for a National Health Program, NY Metro Chapter
• Radical Elders
• Rank+File4NYHealth
• Rise and Resist, Health Care Action Group
• Strong Economy for All
• Students for a National Healthcare Program
• VOCAL NY
• Worth Fighting For -- NYC

Click here to sign-on your organization. Your commitment is to promote the event through your networks, and to form up a contingent in the march.

Click here to volunteer to help out with logistical tasks for the march.

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For the past 60 years, Medicare and Medicaid have been the bedrocks of our health care system in the US. Together, they have kept millions of people healthy and alive, and living in dignity out of poverty. They now provide insurance coverage to 135 million people nationally, including 11 million in New York. They also are the financial undergirding of our entire health care delivery system that we ALL rely on, including our hospitals, community health centers, medical practices, nursing homes, and home care programs. Viva Medicare and Medicaid!

However, both programs are now facing severe attacks under the new huge tax cut law just enacted by Congress and Donald Trump. Over the next decade...

• Medicaid spending will be intentionally cut by over $1 trillion, and Medicare will be forced to cut $500 billion because the federal debt will increase by another $3.5 trillion.
  
• 17 million people will lose their health insurance coverage.
• Health care prices will increase for all of us.
• Out-of-pocket costs for health insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-pays will go way up.
• Health insurance markets will become unstable.
• Funding for hospitals and other facilities will be slashed, leading to cutbacks in services and outright closures.
• Medicare payments to doctors will go down and many will stop taking it.
• Many health care workers will lose their jobs.
• Many Planned Parenthood health care centers will close.
• State and local governments and taxpayers will be left holding the bag to pick up the enormous slack.

...all just to give EVEN MORE HUGE tax cuts to big corporations, special interests, and the ultra-rich.