California OneCare

Campaign For SB 810 – Single Payer Universal Health Care

2010 Uninsured Death Toll in CA: 0 | in US: 0

Activities List

Grassroots Activities for Single Payer Activists

1. Endorsements of SB 810 (Mark Leno)

City Councils
County Boards of Supervisors
School Boards
County Labor Federations
Labor unions
Organizations
Businesses

2. Tabling Locations and/or Leafletting Locations

Farmers markets
Parks
Street festivals
Shopping centers

3. Writing Activities

Letters to the Editor
Op-eds
Host monthly letter-writing house parties directed at legislators/newspapers

4. Street Theater

Dress up as injured/ill patients, march around, distribute leaflets about insurance company denials, pre-existing conditions, etc.
Men dress in suits or tuxedos/big cigars; women dress in evening clothes/dressy suits, have monopoly money sticking out of pockets, purses, necklines, etc. Distribute leaflets thanking people for paying high premiums, going without procedures and medicine so insurance company CEO’s can get millions + per year.
- Street Action Instructions
- Street Action Flyer
Candle light vigils on behalf of the uninsured.
“Die-ins” at local Emergency Departments/Trauma Centers — explain the plight of the uninsured.

5. Marches/Rallies

6. Movie Parties

SiCKO
PBS Documentary
Other

7. Fundraising Activities — contribute money to CaliforniaOneCare or Health Care for All-California

House parties
Dinner parties
Dances
Auctions
Sell items on Ebay

8. “House Calls” — conduct a door-to-door California OneCare Campaign

Survey health insurance status
Fundraise for California OneCare
Inform/educate about SB 810

9. Use local cable access TV to show California OneCare Video and/or ads from the 365-Video Ad Campaign

10. Place informational ads in local newspapers

Share and Enjoy:

Bruce

I've been on the email distribution for well over a year now and it appears that our efforts are losing traction. I say this by the number of comments that are replies to your quick ads. It appears you are "preaching to the choir" and your efforts are not getting out beyond your small realm. Why hasn't the initiative method been used to advance this cause? Money's should be spent placing these internet ads on local cable stations rather than limiting our audience to who subscribes to your website. Of course you have all these organizations behind you but what seems to be missing is any sense of urgency and any attempt to try different communication methods. My suggestion for at least selling bumper stickers to raise money and awareness wasn't even acknowledged. Sure I've donated money in the past, but someone has to grab this issue and turn it in another direction, clearly you have a great cause, unfortunately your audience appears to be schrinking or the Obama healthcare fiasco has dampened everyone's spirits. Try something new!
Carolyn Negrete

JOIN US Tuesday, 1:30PM, June 29th, 2010 at the State Capitol, Sacramento as the Assembly Health Committee holds it's HEARING on SB 810, Leno.
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for passage of this legislation.
CALL YOUR LEGISLATORS and URGE THEY VOTE AYE for this Single Payer Health Plan.
PASS THIS ON.
Go to www.leginfor.ca.gov for more details.
bellamontgomery

I was involved with the Sheila Kuehl bill promotion that passed both legislations and was vetoed by Arnold twice. With all the hype for a new Republican governor and absolutely no word from the Democratic candidate - Jerry Brown, who has little chance of being elected just because of overspending by the Republicans, why do you think this campaign is different? We should have been shoring up the Democrats in this state well before we revived this campaign.
Carolyn Negrete

Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed SB 840 and is ready to veto SB 819 too.

Health Care for All and our many Allies and Senator Leno are prepared to introduce this bill again and to continue to reach out to our neighbors across California to get the support and the message to our Legislators that they will win too when this is passed. Go to www.healthcareforall.org and join a chapter near you. I hope to meet you soon. Carolyn
Guest

How about printing bumper stickers with a catchy phrase such as "I support CA One Care Health Care, do you?" You could sell the dumper stickers as well as fund your activities.
HCASFV

Anyone seeking to get involved in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, we have Health Care for All chapter meetings the 4th Wednesday of every month at the Van Nuys State building at 7:30pm. info at hca-sfv.org
wverdadesyahoocom

I've wanted socialized medicine in this state since I was 17. If we can make this happen then we can make something happen that's big. It's big like Berlin Wall fell big people. I know kids in their twenties whose teeth are rotting out of their heads. Good kids. Kids who are employed. One of them is a collge grad but the health care isn't there for the lower middle end and we need to accept that and socialize medicine. We've got if for the rich. We've got it for the poor. How about the workers? How about for that class of citizen who cannot vote! The childen. Two things I want to see before I die and I been waiting 31 years for both of them.

1. Socialized medicine
2. Thirty to one in every classroom maximum in the state of California and a free hot lunch in every kids belly.
cmbnews

I love your comments. But, of course, this isn't socialized medicine, by definition. Of course, it's splitting hairs. If we get single payer, the majority of medical providers will not be government employees (there will still be the veterans admin, which is). Even tho they will be reimbursed from a govt agency, they will still be largely private practioners. They govt will not be their employer, just the distributer of funds.
"Socialized medicine: A system of health care in which all health personnel and health facilities, including doctors and hospitals, work for the government and draw salaries from the government. Doctors in the US Veterans Administration and the Armed Services are paid this way. And the Veterans and US military hospitals are also supported this way. Examples also exist in Great Britain and Spain."
from http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?art...
Single-payer health care: A system of health care characterized by universal and comprehensive coverage. Single-payer health care is similar to the health services provided by Medicare in the US. The government pays for care that is delivered in the private (mostly not-for-profit) sector. Doctors are in private practice and are paid on a fee-for-service basis from government funds. The government does not own or manage their medical practices or hospitals.

Single-payer health care is distinct and different from socialized medicine in which doctors and hospitals work for and draw salaries from the government.
from: http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?art...