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.
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 is important that we act immediately, right here in California, to show our State Senators we want our reform now.
Senate Bill 810 (Sen. Leno), our single payer health care legislation, will be voted on by the full California State Senate this week.
The Health Insurance companies are spending huge sums of money to spread false propaganda to the public and our State Senators are receiving nasty calls telling them to oppose SB 810! WE MUST RESPOND!
It is absolutely imperative that you email YOUR State Senator today and voice your support for SB 810. Politely tell your State Senator to vote for SB 810 when it comes up for a floor vote this week. The other side is acting rudely.
Let’s guarantee a win on the Senate floor with an overwhelming number of emails to Senators, supporting SB 810, the only solution to the health care crisis in California. And, let’s show our Senators our respect for their deliberations on our behalf.
Come and bring as many single payer supporters
and signs as you can
Buses available at Towns and Phone Numbers below
Call your Senator to urge passage of SB 810 in 2010
| 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.
This Rally is co-sponsored by many coaltion organizations including Health Care for All-California and our CaliforniaOneCare campaign. 10:45 – 11:00 Gather for march outside Embassy Suites Hotel California Association of Retired Americans (CARA) and other coalition organizations are sponsoring buses from several locations in Northern CA. Bus riders will get a box lunch on the way home. Donations will be accepted to help cover costs. Call to reserve a seat on a bus/ carpool from one of these cities and get pick up times and locations. There are 40 Senators. We need 21 votes to pass. There are 15 Co-authors. That means we need 6 votes out of the following 10 Democrats. Calderon, Ron District 30 (916) 651-4030 Previous Yes DONATE TO GET SINGLE PAYER, UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IN CALIFORNIA. Please support the California OneCare 365 Ad Campaign. Help us produce a new thirty-second ad supporting single-payer health care on websites and television throughout California every day for one year. Click here to donate. |
Originally posted by Alberto Saavedra on DailyKos on Tue Dec 15, 2009 at 10:10:17 PM
Some healthcare legislation will pass in DC in the next few weeks. And Obama will sign it. Commemorative pens will be used. And pictures will be taken in the White House lawn. Obama will give a nicely worded speech. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will ham it up.
But this will not be the glorious event it could have been. The progressive base will not rejoice but the insurance companies will, people without health insurance will not celebrate but teabaggers will, healthcare activists will not high five each other but Republican politicians will.
This healthcare victory will be a Pyrrhic one (at best).
The only hope we will have is that a progressive state passes a good Single Payer Public legislation that is then adopted by other states.
The state with the best chance to do this is California with the CaliforniaOnecare.org campaign. I’ll tell you why I have become a very enthusiastic supporter of this well organized movement below.
Before I proceed let me establish one thing; I think Obama is a great President. Although he has not done much of what I hoped he do, he has done one thing that in my view makes all the difference in the world; Obama has regained the moral high ground for America. This alone is enough for me to be a loyal supporter of Obama.
But healthcare matters to me so I will keep on fighting until healthcare is available to all, with or without Obama’s support.
The California One Care campaign is where spotlight will move to next.
Why?
Its purpose is to get California Senate Bill 810 (SB 810) passed.
SB 810 is Single Payer full care for all.
It has the support of all the Democratic legislative leadership and most Democratic legislators
California One Care has a detailed roadmap that even takes into account a Schwarzenegger veto and leads to victory (not a Pyrrhic one) by 2012.
It is the tip of the iceberg of a strong coalition of volunteers and committed organizations.
Its upcoming 365 TV spot ad campaign starting with the one by Lill Tomlin will be effective. I have seen the first 32 and I was excited.
California OneCare is also backed by Heathcare for All which has been pushing for Single Payer legislation in California for 15 years!
In the coming weeks, I will highlight much more about California One Care and the looming healthcare battle that will be fought over the next years in California. Many other states (I hope) will also push for similar legislation but California is the ball game. Victory here is victory everywhere.
We expect the insurance companies to play hardball and we are preparing. But we will need all the help we can get. Everything from blogging, boots on the ground, donations, letters to the editors, phone banking, etc.
The action will start in February, when SB 810 is brought to the floor in Sacramento.
Here’s another video in the “Sick For Profit” series from Brave New Films. It’s a scathing commentary on the devastating business practices of CIGNA, another insurer that is reaping huge profits by delaying, defering, and denying care.
The California OneCare Campaign is all about removing these health insurance profiteers from the health care system and returning health care decisions to doctors and patients.
Join the campaign for single payer, universal health care, California OneCare, Full Care, For All, For Less.
Your donation is crucial to our success. Thank you for your help!
Don Schroeder, Co-Chair
California OneCare Campaign
In this video from the Progressive Democrats of America and the California Nurses Association/National Nurse Organizing Committee, Congressman Dennis Kucinich lays out the three things you should be doing in August to support single payer health care.
Summary:
1) Redouble your efforts to support single payer at the state level. For us, that’s California OneCare.
2) Tell your congressional representative and Democratic Leaders in Congress to support the Kucinich amendment to HR 3200.
3) Tell your congressional representative to support HR 676.
As a further reminder, please see the attached Action Alert flyer that was originally created by the California Alliance for Retired Americans that will help to focus your activities.
As always, your donation is crucial to our success.
Thanks for all of your efforts for single payer! With your help, We Will Win!
Don Schroeder, Co-Chair
California OneCare Campaign
Brave New Films Takes on the Insurance Industry
Here’s a new video from Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films that exposes the greed of just one of the for-profit health insurance companies.
The California OneCare Campaign applauds Brave New Films for their courage in calling out the health insurance industry for what it is—an overwhelming source of profits at the expense of those who desperately need health care.
California OneCare, SB 810, will do away with these profiteers and give people what they want: Single payer, universal health care. Please join and support our campaign for California OneCare: Full Care, For All, For Less.
Your donation is crucial to our success. Thank you for your help!
Don Schroeder, Co-Chair
California OneCare Campaign
The filmmakers who brought you OutFoxed and Iraq For Sale have been making powerful videos that expose greed and corruption in America. Now they are taking on health insurance companies and they need our help.
Specifically, they are looking for personal horror stories of people who have had bad dealings with CIGNA or United Health. If you or someone you know has such a story, please contact our California OneCare Campaign Co-Chair Don Schroeder at don@californiaonecare.org. Don will put you in touch with Brave New Films.
We need to do all we can to expose the health insurance companies’ relentless pursuit of profits at the expense of patients and their families.
Thanks for your continued support.
Don Schroeder, Co-Chair
California OneCare Campaign
don@californiaonecare.org
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