A 19-City Bus Tour Starts Tuesday, A Two-Day Summer Conference July 7-8:
California’s Historic Fight for Single Payer Continues BIG TIME
Dear California OneCare Supporters,
On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that a man was denied health care insurance because years before he had donated one of his kidneys to save his daughter’s life. It didn’t matter that kidney donors live as long as people with two kidneys. To Blue Cross and Blue Shield, it’s always and only about the bottom line. As long as private, profiteering insurance companies are in charge, this will never change.
That’s why the California OneCare campaign will continue to fight for universal, single payer, improved Medicare-for-All regardless of the imminent decision from the U. S. Supreme Court. The Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will come this month, perhaps even this Monday.
If the justices uphold the Act, the health care system will still be broken
More than 3 million Californians will remain without health insurance and millions of middle-income families will be required by law to buy second-rate health plans that will consume up to 9.5% of their income. Insurers will continue to tell us which doctors we may use, and medical co-pays will go on wiping out the life savings of families who thought they were covered.
If the law is struck down, we will be left as we are now
Seven million Californians will remain without health coverage, medical bankruptcies will escalate and medical costs will continue to spiral out of control.
Whatever the Supreme Court decision, the fight continues: a 19-City Bus Tour starts Tuesday in San Diego, then a Summer Conference on July 7-8
Last year, we joined the new statewide coalition of single payer activist groups called the Campaign for a Healthy California (CHC). CHC will help kick off a first-ever 19-city bus tour on June 19 and then stage a two day Summer Conference on the UCLA campus. To learn more about the coalition and how you can help, you’re invited to attend the CHC Summer Conference on July 7th & 8th.
Full Care, for All for Less!
With your continued help and support, the fight for single payer will not stop until ALL Californians are covered by California OneCare. We WILL Win.
Andrew McGuire, Executive Director
California OneCare