Leno’s office released the following statement after the vote:

“California is being overrun by out-of-control health care costs, which has a significant impact on the state budget, businesses and families,” said Senator Leno, D-San Francisco. “Our single payer plan not only guarantees universal coverage for all Californians, but also contains health care costs, which is essential to solving our state budget crisis in the long term.”

SB 810 creates a private-public partnership to provide every California resident medical, dental, vision, hospitalization and prescription drug benefits and allows patients to choose their own doctors and hospitals. This single payer, “Medicare for All” type of program works by pooling together the money that government, employers and individuals already spend on health care and putting it to better use by cutting out the for-profit middle man.

“We must continue to fight for healthcare for every Californian,” said DeAnn McEwen, President of the California Nurses Association and a nurse at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. “Federal reform does not insure that all Californians will receive the care they need. President Obama noted that if states come up with a better plan, they could move forward. Californians deserve the best. Senate Bill 810 will provide every Californian with an excellent standard of care, improve health outcomes, and finally get healthcare costs under control.”

California currently spends $200 billion annually on a fragmented, inefficient health care system that wastes 30% of every dollar on administration. Under Senate Bill 810, that wasteful spending is eliminated. The bill creates no new spending, and in fact, studies show that the state would save $8 billion in the first year under this single-payer health care plan.

“Most doctors support a public-private partnership like Medicare, but with everybody covered, better benefits, and lower costs,” said Dr. Henry L. Abrons, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, California Chapter. “We need to spend our precious resources wisely. Federal reform won’t accomplish these things, but SB 810 will.”

“Health Care for All realizes that the only way to provide better health care for absolutely everyone, for less money than we’re now spending, and control rising costs, is to pass a bill like SB 810 and then make the necessary changes to finance it,” said Greg Brockbank, chair of Health Care for All, California. “We stand ready to do our part in making that happen, and then to help successfully implement it.”

SB 810 will now move forward to the Senate Appropriations Committee. It’s imperative that we keep calling and writing our legislators so we can get the bill through the entire Senate a fourth time, then on to the Assembly, and finally to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. Along with Vermont – which is poised to pass its own single payer bill – we have the chance to show the rest of the country that single payer works, and is the best and most fiscally responsible way to solve our healthcare crisis. Full care for all, for less!

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Kathy Lander, Producer, who worked tirelessly to recruit, schedule, coordinate, cajole, and convince so many to get involved in this exciting venture. Her creativity, energy, and dedication was key to the success of the campaign!

Elliott Gould who starred in the first spot and then became our ad hoc casting director, convincing countless friends and colleagues to appear in our ads.

Lily Tomlin whose ineffable Ernestine starred in two of our best ads.

Paula Poundstone who led the way among the stars who contributed time and talent.

Michael Lighty and the California Nurses Association whose generous donation made the initial posting of the ads possible through the funding of our website.

Randy Rogers who not only donated several weekends of his time, but also his entire Telefilm, Inc. studio and the equipment necessary to shoot the spots.

Betty and Stanley Sheinbaum who donated their home for a day of shooting and appeared in a spot, too!

John Hughes whose Rhythm and Hues company created the original look of the ads with the creativity of Clark Anderson, Paul Babb, Steve Wellington, Lisa White, Tim DeLone, and Thomas Burkhart.

Jim Machowski and John Barzelay who donated time and equipment to record sound for several of the shoots.

Chuck Ozeas, cinematographer, who donated his considerable talent for location shoots.

Steve Graham of Teleprompter, Inc. and Jamie Stevens of AcuPrompt Teleprompting Services and Bev & Tom Feldman, of StarPrompt Teleprompting Service who provided teleprompting equipment and services.

Kim Konsler, Kathleen Hagan, Sara Kuhl, and Kathryn Miles Fenton who donated makeup supplies and services.

Blake Hottle, Scotty Osterman and Eric Grammel who provided production services and equipment.

Jamie Mitchell whose Beachwood Cottage Film and Music Company provided all of the editorial services for the ads.

Drew Martinez who edited the spots.

Mladen Milicevic who created the music.

Jim Miller and the staff of Brave New Films who donated studios, services and equipment.

Daniel Jacobo of Chaffey College who supported the production with equipment.

Diannah Morgan who designed California OneCare graphics.

Anthony Montalvo for engineering the ad campaign on our website.

Andrew McGuire, Executive Director of California OneCare who originally conceived the 365 Ad Campaign.

George Savage, Campaign Co-Chair who wrote scripts and coordinated the posting of all the spots on our website and crediting the donating “Producers.”

Sylvia Moore who made sure that a new spot was posted every day of the year.

Health Care for All-California whose members supported the initial production and launch of the campaign.

The Producers who donated to the 365 Ad Campaign.

And all of our stars! Click Here to View the 365 Ad Archives.
 
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this campaign a success and to help take us to the next step in true health care reform. With the dedication and talents of people like you, there is no doubt, We Will Win!

Don Schroeder

Writer, Producer & Director of the 365 Ads

Chair, California OneCare

California School Employees Association President Rob Feckner explains why they support California OneCare: “We feed your children, clean the classrooms, and make our schools safe, but many of our 230,000 members work part time and do not qualify for health insurance,” he says. “That’s why we support a single payer system that would cover everyone with comprehensive benefits and freedom to choose any doctor.”

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Elliott Gould warns us not to believe the myths about single payer health care. “Single payer is no more socialized medicine than the police department is socialized crime fighting,” he says. California OneCare is publicly financed, privately delivered health care, and poll after poll has shown that not only do doctors and nurses want it, but so do two-thirds of the people.

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Senator Mark Leno, author of Senate Bill 810, says that it’s time for Californians to be innovators once again. We can become the first state to enact a publicly funded, privately delivered single payer health care system that will cover everybody and save money.

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Many older Americans are worried that somehow they’re going to lose something if we reform health care. “With California OneCare there’s nothing to worry about,” says Joe D’Angerio. “Everything would be covered no matter what your age or medical condition.” That includes doctors, hospitals, prescriptions, therapies, home health care, even transportation. Single payer, California OneCare is good for everybody.

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Anita Borcia Horn has been involved in health care reform since she heard that we could get comprehensive coverage for all while spending less than we do now for junk insurance. She joined Health Care for All-California, a nonpartisan organization that created the California OneCare campaign and has been fighting for single payer since 1995. “Join us,” she says.

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There’s no reason to wait, says George Savage. We’re just a few votes away from passing a true, single payer reform bill called California OneCare. With your help, we can get it done!

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Thanks to you, we know we can cure health care, once and for all!

Dear OneCare Supporters,

One of the most poignant messages California OneCare sent you this year was about David Garrett, a vital, athletic marathon runner who had just married the love of his life. David didn’t have health insurance, so he put off getting a routine test that would have revealed the prostate cancer that took his life.

His was yet another pointless tragic loss, one of 45,000 deaths that occur every year because of a lack of health insurance.

This is not the America that I know and love, where children go without the care that can save their lives. Where we sentence our citizens to death because they’re broke. I believe in an America that has a heart. And I believe that the pulse of our collective heart lies in our health care system.

Your support is needed now to help us start our “once and for all” campaign.

More than ever, I’m convinced that getting health care right is the cause of our generation. Our system is so horribly broken even Washington’s attempts to fix it will fall unacceptably short. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will still leave from 20 to 40 million uninsured and will not control spiraling health care costs.

Instead, we need a complete overhaul: a self-insurance type system where ONE California agency collects all of the health care dollars, and pays all of the health care providers. Some call it improved Medicare for All. We call it California OneCare.

California’s new leaders will need a populist movement to support them.

The good news is that California OneCare is within reach! We can do it with a populist movement that will force our legislators and progressive new leaders to make California OneCare the law of the land. And we have a plan to make that happen in two years:

First, in concert with our coalition partners, we will conduct an economic study that will prove that OneCare will not only cover everyone comprehensively, but will also save money for families, businesses and government.

Next, an interactive website that will serve as the online hub for supporters of our movement—our OneCare Teams. The site will facilitate communication with the campaign and with other supporters and will have training materials and resources that activists can download.

Then, on-line and grassroots activism that will get noticed. Building on tabling and public speaking, we’re planning dramatic street theater events, flash mobs, demonstrations, freeway blogging, massive marches, and blow-out concerts.

These next two years are going to be more exciting than any in our decades-long fight. Our plans are big, but so is the opposition.

Click here to donate now. Stay tuned for campaign developments and invite your friends to help us make history!

Let’s make sure that there are no more David Garretts, that we do live in an America that we can believe in, and that we are the generation that will give America back its heart.

Andrew McGuire, Executive Director
California OneCare Campaign

PS. Your donation now will help us launch the populist movement that will change California, and then the nation.

The secret weapon that is going to defeat the trillion dollar insurance industry? YOU–the people who know that things have to change. Andrew McGuire, Health Care for All–California Executive Director, says that together we will make history, because WE WILL WIN.

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