1. Students for a National Health Program
Effective Strategies for Building and Maintaining a Successful SNaHP Chapter
Students for a National Health Program
Reuben Baker & Bryant Shuey

2. The process Strategize Recruit Take action Organize yourself
Educate yourself
Recruit
Reach out
Grow base
Take action
Form coalitions
Creative programs

3. Strategize: organize yourself
Location to centrally store files
Google Drive
Template for Chapter Constitution
Template for PNHP Charter
Make list of targets to contact
What does success look like to you?
Make weekly, monthly, annual goals
How will you not get discouraged?

6. Strategize: educate yourself
Know Single Payer
Dr McCanne’s Quote of the Day
Read Physicians’ Proposal
“Healing of America” by TR Reid
Policy: HealthAffairs.Org, Kaiser Family Foundation, WHO
Know ACA and Alternative Plans
Kaiser Health News briefing
Perfect the 30-second elevator speech
PNHP.org FAQ!

7. Strategize: educate yourself
Vox (2 mins) M
PNHP Minnesota (1 min)
Republican Healthcare Plans (6 mins)
Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point (58 mins)

8. Strategize: connect yourself
Join the Students for a National Health Program public and private facebook groups
Join your region’s facebook group
Create a SNaHP facebook page for your institution
Follow other student organizations to be in the loop about social justice issues

10. Recruit: reach out Single Payer 101 or Grand Rounds
in house or invited speaker
Panel with physicians and/or other advocates
"Fix It" or "Sick Around The World" movie screening
‘Values clarification’ workshop
Open Forum
What is single payer?
How might a group of students commit to learning more about more equitable health systems?

11. Recruit: grow base Email institution’s list serv, including faculty
Aim for lunch time
Have food but think outside the box
Remember, PNHP will subsidize if asked beforehand
Pizza???
Have sign up sheet
Have an immediate action to get involved
Resolution?
Proposal?
Sign up to speak with Representative?

12. Recruit: grow base
Strategy without action is pointless

13. Take action Form coalitions!
Nurses, public health, and other health professionals
Trade unions
Social justice groups like WC4BL, Healthcare Now, et al
Health lawyers
Day at the State Capitol, on The Hill, or “birddogging”
Op-eds or letters to the Editor
Speak to undergraduate pre-medical society
Anything to educate/rally the public

14. Finally… be prepared Isn’t single payer a gov takeover of healthcare?
How will we pay for it?
What’s wrong with a public option?
What about prescription drug costs?
Won’t this lower physicians’ salaries?
What about wait times?
What will happen to everyone working for insurance or in healthcare administration?
It is okay if you do not have all of the answers!
Chapter Building is Building!

15. Questions?? Bryant Shuey bryantshuey@gmail.com
Reuben Baker
Health policy websites:
The Commonwealth Fund:
Kaiser Family Foundation:
Health Affairs Blog:
Physicians for a National Health Program: