Posts Tagged ‘health insurance’

Individuals and small companies likely to see health premiums jump next year

March 26th, 2013

Get ready for some sticker shock. The major health insurance companies say they plan to ratchet up premiums between 25% and 116% next year, once the Affordable Care Act is fully up and running. Small businesses and people who buy coverage on their own will be affected. The insurers say they’ll have to charge more because of new requirements in the law that expand benefits, ban discrimination of people with pre-existing conditions, and restrict how much older patients can be charged. But the Obama administration says subsidies and increased competition should force prices down. But the fact is, no one would have to worry at all about premium increases if the government would just allow everyone into Medicare.

Sylvia@californiaonecare.org

 

Activists gather in Sacramento and Los Angeles to support Medicare for all

February 22nd, 2013

On Feb. 11, 2013, single payer health care supporters rallied in Sacramento and in Los Angeles in support of the California Professional Student Alliance’s Annual Lobby Day.

Sylvia@californiaonecare.org

Medicare for All Rallies in Sacramento & Los Angeles to Celebrate Lobby Day, Feb. 11

February 4th, 2013

From Campaign for a Healthy California:

Insurance companies are raising their rates on individual policy holders by 20%. It’s time to tell legislators to PUT PEOPLE FIRST!
Lobby Day/Rally

February 11 at Noon, Join the Campaign for a Healthy California in supporting the California Health Professional Student Alliance Lobby (CaHPSA) rally for single payer!
Free bus rides to Sacramento available from Bay Area locations. Please call to reserve!

Noon Join the students on the north steps of the Capitol
1:00 PM March to the California Association of Health Plans at 14th and L Streets.
(A bus will be available for those unable to walk that distance.)

■ San Francisco: San Francisco Main Library, Larkin and Fulton at 9 am. Reserve a seat through Don Bechler at Single Payer Now, 415-810-5826.
■ Richmond: Target, 42nd and MacDonald Avenue at 9:45 am. Reserve a seat through Cara at 510-663-4086.
■ Berkeley: Ashby Bart at 9:15 am. This bus will pick up in Richmond after the Berkeley stop. Reserve a seat through Cara at 510-663-4086.
■ San Jose: South Bay Labor Council, 2102 Almaden Road at 9:00 am. Reserve a seat through Greg Miller – (408) 254-3311.
■ Grass Valley: KMart, 111 W. McKnight Way at 9:30 am. Reserve a seat through Mindy’s email.
■ Roseville: UDW office, 800 Sunrise Avenue Suite C at 10:15 am. Reserve a seat through Diana at 916-435-9760.
■ Fresno: Mervyn’s Parking Lot, Ashlan and Shields at 7:30 am. Reserve a seat through Judy Hess – 559-907-0279.
■ Modesto: Old Krispy Kreme, Briggsmoore at Highway 99 at 9:15 am. Reserve a seat through Carol Bailey at 209-951-0499.
■ Stockton: Clarion Hotel, Highway 99 at Waterloo at 10 am. Reserve a seat through Carol Bailey at 209-951-0499.

Email Questions (info@Healthycaliforniacampaign.org) or call 800-745-3090

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Information below for Los Angeles satellite rally:

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New California OneCare Education Fund now accepting FY 2012 TAX DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS*

January 2nd, 2013

Dear California OneCare Supporters,

While Congress fiddles with cutting Medicare benefits, California fights for a true Single Payer Universal Health Care Plan.

At California OneCare, we’ve been educating and advocating for a single, public, not-for-profit health-insurance plan that will cover all Californians and be a model for the nation. Our programs educate and empower people on a personal, grassroots level because we believe that person-to-person contact is the only way to achieve lasting change with this complex issue.

And now, the OneCare campaign has established a separate California OneCare Education Fund, a 501(c)(3) non-partisan, non-profit organization strictly for education activity to which you may now support with Tax Deductible donations.

Your support is appreciated by us and by economists:

Last week, more than 100 economists emphatically endorsed a national single-payer, Medicare-for-All system in the U.S. that covers all ages as the most humane and fiscally-responsible way to run a health care system: http://econ4.org/statement-on-healthcare

Your continued support and your donation at this time will enable California OneCare to expand outreach, organizing and advocacy in 2013.

Be sure to write and mail a tax-deductible contribution by end of day tomorrow to *California OneCare Education Fund, P.O. Box 5116, Novato, CA 94948.

For a non-tax-deductible contribution, you may go to http://californiaonecare.org/donate/ today and donate on-line.

With your help, we will win!

Happy New Year to you and your family.

Yours in health care justice,

Andrew McGuire

Executive Director, California OneCare Campaign

Our thanks to Dr. Don McCanne and our friends at Physicians for a National Health Program – California pnhpcalifornia.org
for sharing this Econ4.org Statement on Healthcare.