Affordability in Action: Joining Forces to Lower Hospital Prices

As hospitals in New York City and beyond continue to raise prices that drive unsustainable healthcare spending, 32BJ Health Fund, 32BJ LICF, and our partners are demonstrating that change isn’t just possible, it’s happening.

💰Groundbreaking direct contracts to lower hospital prices

📃New legislation requiring fair prices for routine care, regardless of setting

📢Coalitions building political power to hold hospitals accountable to the patients they serve

This is what affordability in action looks like.

Meet the urgency of the moment and join a growing movement of collaborators tackling the problem and solutions head on at 32BJ Health Fund and 32BJ LICF’s fifth annual daylong conference. We invite policymakers, consumer advocates, employers, healthcare purchasers, and health system leaders to explore the latest strategies to address unchecked hospital prices.

We’re excited to announce a preview of confirmed speakers:

• Wendell Potter, Editor-in-Chief, HEALTH CARE un-covered; President, The Center for Health and Democracy
• Elizabeth Mitchell, President and CEO, Purchaser Business Group on Health
• Zirui Song, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine, Harvard Medical School; General Internist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Stay tuned for more speaker and program details to be announced!

Join us to network and learn about:

• Where to start with direct contracting, negotiation strategies, and ways to scale
• Advocacy blueprints that inspire policymakers to action
• Curbing hospitals’ anti-competitive market practices
• Solutions to contain out-of-network costs

The 32BJ Health Fund provides quality, affordable health benefits to more than 200,000 32BJ union members and their families. SEIU 32BJ members include property service workers up and down the East Coast. The 32BJ Labor Industry Cooperation Trust Fund (LICF) is a joint initiative between SEIU 32BJ—a union of 185,000 building service workers—and the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations focused on containing rising healthcare costs, including tackling out-of-control hospital prices, for 32BJ members and employers in New York City and surrounding areas.

This in-person event is free. Advance registration is required.

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