Educational Summit 2022

"Our Broken Healthcare System, Explained"

With Ana Malinow MD, Steffie Woolhandler MD, Theodore Brown PhD and host Luke Parcher

Our educational panel provides an overview of the existing healthcare system, its history,

and how private, market-driven forces are accelerating its certain collapse.

"Our Broken Healthcare System, a Discussion"

With Andy Coates MD, Claudia Fegan MD, Karen Palmer MPH, and host Savage Joy

Panelists present a bold, revolutionary vision of what the healthcare system must be:

universal, comprehensive, sustainable, equitable, and free from corporate profit and greed.

"Impacts of Disaster Capitalism on Healthcare"

With Nathaniel Mulchahy, Mike Pappas MD, Adam Cooper PhD Student, and host Savage Joy

Exploring the health impacts of natural disasters, pandemics, pollution,

environmental degradation, and 1881A of the Social Security Act.

"Racism in Healthcare"

With Rev. Annie Chambers, Claire Cohen MD, Kim Brown, and host Elias Cepeda

A discussion of the past and present racial inequality in healthcare and how national,

improved Medicare for All is a crucial step toward addressing the problem.

"The Mental Health Crisis in the United States"

With Valerie McCray PhD, Lorraine, Purpose First Duo; Gregor Coffaro and

Austin Fagen, and host Savage Joy

Mental health is often forgotten in our predatory, for-profit healthcare system.

Without national single-payer, people cannot get the treatment they desperately need.

"Healthcare Disparities for People with Disabilities"

With Michele Mashburn, James "JB" Fauntleroy, and host Savage Joy

A discussion on the disability inequities in healthcare. One in ten Americans

identify as having a disability, yet have largely been unrecognized.

"Healthcare Workers Speak Out"

With Savage Joy, Cheryl Kunis MD, Elizabeth Meyer, and host Logan Grendel

A healthcare system based on profit corrupts every aspect of it.

Healthcare professionals discuss how workers and patients have been impacted.

"The International Human Right to Health and

Why National Single-Payer is the Way Forward"

With Martha Schmidt JD, Mary Gerisch JD, and host Luke Parcher

A conversation about international law and the human right to health care.

Name and claim your right to health and build the movement.

Learn about the M4M4ALL complaint to the UN Human Rights Council and how you can participate.

"Why Improved Medicare for All Must be National"

With Ana Malinow MD, Kay Tillow, Steve Grumbine, and host Savage Joy

Discussion of incremental reforms, state-level efforts, and the pros and cons of

HR 1976 (the Medicare for All Act of 2021). Our proposal for a model national single-payer bill.

"How're We Gonna Pay for It?"

With Rohan Grey JD, Yeva Nersisyan PhD, Geoff Ginter, and host Luke Parcher

A discussion of financing national improved Medicare for All. The session will include

Modern Monetary Theory basics to explain why money is NOT the problem.

"Next Wave of Organizing"

With Edward Grystar, Eric Kestner, Edwin DeJesus, Lara Sheehi PsyD, and host Savage Joy

A conversation about building and sustaining an independent grassroots movement

to change the balance of political power to achieve national single-payer.