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Charity Treats Thousands of Uninsured in Northern California

April 15th, 2011

While Democratic and Republican lawmakers bickered over budget deficits in Sacramento and Washington, last week thousands of uninsured and underinsured Californians endured long lines and chilly weather to receive the health care denied to them under our cruel, profit-driven system. Tennessee-based Remote Area Medical held free health clinics first in Sacramento, then in Oakland. Much of the demand was for dental and vision care, which are not offered in most insurance plans.

Rose Aguilar of KALW in San Francisco, took the following videos from the clinic in Oakland.

Aguilar interviews a former postal worker who has no health insurance

RAM also operates clinics in Haiti and the Amazon Basin, but, incredibly, 64% of its work is done right here in the United States! Shouldn’t we, who love to call ourselves “the greatest nation on Earth,” be embarrassed by this situation? I think a country that continues to tolerate millions of its citizens going without basic health care can no longer claim such a title.

Sylvia@californiaonecare.org

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CA OneCare 2011 Campaign Firing Up NOW

November 19th, 2010

Watch for updates, new actions and how you can help reignite

California’s historic Single Payer Movement!

First Step:  January 10th Lobby Day and Rally in Sacramento

Dear OneCare Supporters,

Today marks the 264th day of our California OneCare media campaign as celebrities and supporters remind us of the benefits of single payer. These powerful TV ads will continue each day on our California OneCare website and links to them will now be sent to you each Monday via our weekly “blog digest” as we roll out the 2011 campaign.

Stay tuned to the OneCare campaign

California single payer advocates have always held that real health care reform will happen in one state first, and then spread across America.

We can pass and sign a new California OneCare bill in Sacramento.  We know we can convince our new Governor and legislature that CA OneCare will save lives AND save billions of dollars.

Our California OneCare non-profit organization and team will continue to build the kind of coalition that it will take to overturn a century of unneeded pain and suffering, to say nothing of outrageous insurance industry premiums that rise whenever the industry thinks they can get away with it!

In the weeks ahead, you’ll learn about exciting campaign strategies, new local grassroots options and new statewide ACTIONS, starting with the first coalition event in Sacramento on January  10: a Capitol Steps Kick-off Lobby Day and Rally to launch the campaign to pass the next version of SB 810.

We and many other single payer advocates will be supporting this event organized by the California Health Professional Student Alliance (CaHPSA), an organization of nursing, medical, public health and other health professions students.  It will be an historic kick off rally!

Thanks so much for your generous support and continued commitment to single payer reform in California. WE WILL WIN!

Andrew McGuire
Executive Director, California OneCare Campaign

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Join the March, Rally & Lobby Day in Sacramento This Monday, January 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

January 8th, 2010

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.

Please pass along this flier to your friends.  If you have questions, today you can email CaPA.Fellow@PNHP.org or Rally Day organizing team leader Candice Rugg.

10:45 – 11:00   Gather for march outside Embassy Suites Hotel
11:00 – 12:00   March through Downtown Sacramento to CA Capitol Building Rally
12:00 -  1:00   Giant Rally on north steps of California Capitol Building

BUS SPACES STILL AVAILABLE–CALL TODAY.

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.
Berkeley/Richmond/Vallejo: Call 415-550-0828
Rocklin / Placer:  Call 916-435-9760
San Francisco: Call 415-810-5826
San Jose:  Call 408-984-8708
Stockton: Call 209-951-0499

URGE YOUR SENATOR TO SUPPORT (OR CO-AUTHOR) SB 810.

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
Correa, Louis District 34 (916) 651-4034 Previous Yes
Ducheny, Denise District 40 (916) 651-4040 Previous Yes
Kehoe, Christine District 39 (916) 651-4039 Previous Yes
Liu, Carol District 21 (916) 651-4021 Previous Yes
Negrete McLeod, Gloria District 32  (916) 651-4032 Previous Yes
Oropeza, Jenny District 28 (916) 651-4028 Previous Co-author
Simitian, S. Joseph District 11 (916) 651-4011 Previous Yes
Wolk, Lois District 05 (916) 651-4005 Previous Yes
Wright, Rod District 25 (916) 651-4025 NO

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.

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