Friends,
As you may know already, the SP-USA (NYC) has been organizing to stop the proposed merger between the healthcare insurers GHI and HIP. The combination of these two currently not-for-profit providers will create a new for-profit mega-corporation which would have the ability to bankrupt NYC. In addition, for-profit conversions often lead to premium increases and restrictions on access to care. Clearly we need a single-payer national healthcare system and as part of that struggle we need to prevent this merger from being green lighted by the NY State Superintendent of Insurance.
Hearings are being held on Tues. Jan. 29 at 10a at 55 Water Street. All New Yorkers are encouraged to participate either by giving testimony or standing in solidarity against the proposed merger. All our current organizing material as well as background articles have been loaded onto a website:
http://socialistparty-usa.org/stopthemerger/
Hope to see everyone who can make it at the hearing on Tuesday.
Peace, Billy
SP-USA (NYC)
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