Healthy Americans make for a healthy America. The only way we can have healthy Americans is to get the Insurance companies and share holders out of our health care to make it affordable. Don't fall for their scare tactics of calling California ONECARE socialism. They use that word against everything that is good for us to cover up their real goal of "profiteerism." In the last decades everything has been for sale as service sectors are privatized and sold to profiteers. See the prison system, highway system (in many states), fire protection system, education system, etc.

Please pass SB 810 – Single Payer Universal Health Care

My grandchildren need health insurance as do many other children in California..

Let your records in the state government show that you have compassion for all of the uninsured people in California.

Maybe our recent and continuing financial crisis will have a positive side- that being to expose the precarious macro financial situation we are in, country wide, and become the criticial catalyst for change in one of the largest and fasting growing components of our public debt - health care. This initiative has the true potential to profit from the situation and provide a positive path forward - for California and the Country.

I'm 100% in favor of California OneCare: it makes complete sense! What doesn't make sense is handing over your money to the insurance company leaches whose prime goal is to make themselves rich, while paying as little as possible for the essential health care you require. "Health Insurance" is a very misleading namefor these companies!

Do not act with disregard of Americans/Californians--we are the only citizens in the developed world whose government is so callous and cruel as to not provide health care for all.The Nasties in congress would rather have citizens trade health and life for money--to increase the corruption and greed among the health insurance corporations.

I keep losing my sales positions on the day I would qualify for healthcare benefits. Often, my healthcare costs run almost as much as my base pay in sales, because of my age. I have been laid off at 4 jobs that offered benefits over the past 4 years and always on the day I would finally qualify for those benefits. This has happened only because---for profit healthcare discriminates against an aging population that would finally need to take advantage of benefits. In Hawaii, it is law that anyone working over 20 hours a week receive healthcare benefits through the business they work for. Now those businesses purposely hire only part-time workers, so that they do not have to provide healthcare insurance. Why---because for profit healthcare and the for profit healthcare insurance companies have only one directive---to make a profit, and for profit hospitals and care providers also have the same directive---to make a profit. So consequently, any worker or individual of an age where they may need to use their benefits---are discriminated against in the healthcare industry and workplace. Also, without insurance, an individual is charged more than someone with insurance, when they seek healthcare services. Healthcare for profit puts those individuals without insurance at risk of recieving little or no healthcare by increasing costs and making it almost impossible to receive adequate medical care. Many healthcare professionals won't even see an individual without insurance unless they pay in full upfront for their services.

Go for it! Do what we have not been able to do on a National basis. It has to start here, in California, the state that should be leading in all areas that work for the voters, the citizens, and for future citizens. Bring all possible into the fold and educate them well, tax them appropriately as they benefit as much as possible, and work to make sure that corporations are not considered people with personal rights. They are not persons, they are constructs with agendas to make money and they should be given every chance to do so by providing them with meaningful rules and regulations that assure that all play fair and for the end benefit of the citizens of this great state. If we love our state we need to invest in it, guide those corporations to act responsibly with our resources, including our people, both citizens and future citizens, and value those resources accordingly. Our citizens need to be healthy, educated, trained. Our natural resources need to be guarded and when used by state (or federal or military or private entities) they should be charged for appropriately and any depreciation expense needs to be charged for as well. Not only Single Payor Health System but an Accounting System that acknowledges the cost of resources used and the cost of not training or educating or investing in our people, both existing and future, should be utilized. There is one such Accounting system available that has been discussed for over a generation. That should be our next big thing....so we invest appropriately in our people, our natural resources, and do not let any institution, government or private, operate without acknowledging the depreciation of our state assets when used and pay appropriate fees or investments to keep us as great as we were two generations ago.

And the health of our people is number one. The single payor system can be more efficient and it is the right thing to do. Then our infrastructure, both physical and digital to improve our educational abilities and our productive abilities but without losing sight of who should ultimately benefit : all our citizens, and citizens to be, not just our voters. And then should come commitment to alternative energy investments with suitable incentives to both government and private enterprise that at the very least match oil, gas, and atomic incentives. We need a government that can help us invest in and for citizens and our children, and put us to work to better our state, not depreciate it or denigrate it without cost.

I worked as a software engineer until I developed a cancer. Due to the illness, I lost my job, then my health insurance and then my house in one protracted near-death spiral. Now I am working at fairs and trade shows selling vegetable peelers. All of this loss would be unnecessary if we had a single-payer system where everyone pays their share based on income.

Single Payer health care=MediCare for all=Saves lives and billion$!! NOW!! It is not tied to a job. If you are not working it does not cost a cent. It lasts our entire lives. If you are working it costs a mere 3.8% after your first $7,000 annual income. You no longer have to stay with a bad employer just to have health insurance. SB810 in Calif. will put all health insurance companies out of business. They can no longer make money by denying health care for prior conditions and NO ONE will tell your doctor what he/she can do for you based on their profits!!

Which democratic Attorney General Candidate supports SB810 and similar Universal Health Care measures?
It is time to vote for candidates that support Universal Health Care.

My daughter recently had to have part of her toe amputated because she and her husband had no health ins. No jobs no ins.and fear of medical bills,hence too long a delay seeking treatment.We must have healthcare for all.

My individual 1500 Share (deductible) PPO Anthem Blue Cross premiums have JUMPED from :
2007 $589.00
2009 $736.00
May 2010 if nothing is done to stop these rising rates in the face of 2.7 billion dollar profits the last quarter of 2009--I will have to pay $980.00/month for care that includes increases in co-pays and a deductible that I've yet to meet; even with 8 diagnoses. This premium will exceed my mortgage payment.

Healthcare is every bit a right as police and fire protection, and public education.

I am now paying half my teacher retirement for insurance premiums for my husband and me. That makes me at poverty level. Help!

Without some form of "universal" health care IT IIS JUST "BUSINESS AS USUAL"

I support the California Healthcare initiative.

I support the California healthcare initiative.

I am impressed the California Senate has passed this bill. Now the Assembly must do their part. Make California a leader again!

Yes! The California Senate and the Assembly both passed SB810 Single Payer Health Care for all TWICE....once in 2006 and again in 2008. Arnold governator vetoed. Now it has been passed a third time and goes to his desk in Sept. If he wants to be remembered for anything but his inability to get a budget passed, he needs to sign this bill.

Who's dumb idea was it that we could get top quality health care, or at least that which is equal to our third world countries, and make a profit too. Any rational person should see two major apposing forces good health care vs profits.

I am in full support of the California Single Payer Health Plan.

How better to measure the character of our state (I wait for national health care "reform") by taking care of citizens that need care and cannot afford it. Should only those who are able to work get health care and in that case, what about people working part time, or those who are exploited with wages far below the ability to have a quality life.

I was talked into an unnecessary UPPP operation on my throat for sleep apnea by an ENT doctor at the UCD Medical Center in July 2008. I learned afterward that the operation is not indicated for someone with moderate sleep apnea (me) and fibromyalgia (me also). An unnecessary expense for Medicare.

I was not told that it is a very invasive procedure. The operation was done badly, causing a leak in my swallowing. Food sticks in the back of my throat and liquid backs up into my nose. causing digestion problems and nose irritation problems. Thus my health was unnecessarily harmed--for profit for a doctor and/or practice for an intern.

Somehow, Some way, this WILL HAPPEN!

In Canada, irt was not the Federal Government, buit the individual provinces which brought the Canadian version of single-payer, universal health care to Canada.

If our useless federasl government here can't do it, then let's do it state by state, untiil they're forced to do it, in order to make it umniform -- that's how the Canadians did it!

Good point, Richard!

I already have Medicare and I want to share it with everybody.

I guess those who want to throw out this term "Socialized" would like to give up our "socialized" public utilities, highway and public streets, parks, etc.

CaliforniaOneCare will show the rest of the country what CAN be done.