Single payer is a publicly financed health insurance system that provides full coverage, for all, for less. For more information about this plan and Senate Bill 810 that would create it, click on the links below.
365 Ad# 11 Lexi Marman
Lexi Marman needed a tooth removed and before she knew it, the dentist took out a pair of pliers and yanked the tooth out of her mouth–with no Novocain. He said it saved her money, but it didn’t save her from the pain. She wished she had single payer, California OneCare that day because it covers dental care.
Your Votes Got Us Into The Final Round of The Ideas for Change Competition
Now your votes are needed for our idea, “Support the California OneCare Campaign for Single Payer Health Care,” to be one of the top 10 winners of the final round of competition.
If our idea makes it into the top 10 in this final round which ends on March 12 at 2pm Pacific Time, the resources of the Change.org team, their partners, and their 1 million community members will be mobilized to help us as we build the grassroots movement for single payer in California.
Contact Your State Senator Today to Vote Yes for Single Payer Health Care in California
Massachusetts Senator Elect Scott Brown has vowed to be the forty first vote against Health Insurance Reform putting it in serious trouble in Congress. That is why it is so important that we pass our own Health Care Reform in California. And, it important that we act immediately, right here in California, to show our State Senators we want our reform now.
The Future of Health Care Reform Came to Sacramento Yesterday
The supporters of SB 810, the most vetted and mature Single Payer legislation in America, marched and rallied at the Capitol in Sacramento yesterday.
The action in the front lines of the movement that WILL succeed in doing what DC politics could not do, pass legislation for the ONLY public option healthcare that pays for itself, were glorious.
Join the March, Rally & Lobby Day in Sacramento This Monday, January 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
In California’s first health care reform action of the New Year, the California Health Professional Student Alliance (CaHPSA), supporters of single payer SB 810 (Leno), are staging a public March, Rally and Lobby Day this Monday, January 11th, 11AM to 1:00PM in Sacramento. Our historic legislation for true single payer reform in California is expected to be moved from the Appropriations Committee next week or soon thereafter, enroute to passage in the Legislature later this year.
Conservative Commentator David Brooks Prefers Single Payer to Current Plans
This past Sunday on ABC News This Week, respected, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks made a remarkable comment: “Well, I wouldn’t mind a single payer,” he said. “Frankly I prefer a single payer [health care system] to what we have now, because that would actually control costs.” Watch the video (approximately -10:20).
