Campaign for a Healthy California. Need to make critical calls before Jan 17th

[annm4peace]

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Campaign for a Healthy California

Urgent - Time to make Calls!!
Appropriations Committee Hearing January 17th
These are the critical Actions needed now!
1. Call or email/write Senator Curren Price on Senate Appropriations BEFORE January 17th and ask him to support SB 810 in the Appropriations Committee.
Senator Curren Price, Los Angles/Hollywood area
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

2. Call or email/write Senators Kehoe and Steinberg and thank them for supporting SB 810.
Senator Christine Kehoe, San Diego Area (Appropriations Committee Chair)
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email [e-mail]
Senator Darrell Steinberg, Sacramento Area (Senate Pro Tem, Appropriations Committee Member)
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
3. Important points for contacting these Senators:
Phone calls are brief and to the point
Tell them your name and you are calling as a supporter of SB 810 and you are looking to Senator Price to support the bill in
Appropriations next week (Or thank Kehoe and Steinberg for supporting SB 810).
They will likely ask for your address or if you live in the district.
If you do not (most of us don't) tell them you have a vital stake in what the Appropriations Committee does so you are a constituent for that purpose
4. Talking points for calls:
1,000 Californians die every month due to lack of access to healthcare.
Single Payer as a solution to the State’s current fiscal crisis by saving $9 billion in the first year and billions annually going forward. Currently $28 billion dollars annually, or one third of the state budget, is related to healthcare, and while family premiums have gone up 150% - the time for Single Payer is now.
The $200 billion price tag for SB 810 is misleading - this is money already spent on healthcare – not a new expenditure, so there is no effect.
California must meets the challenge presented by President Obama – for states to do better than the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This is why he allowed states to request waivers to implement healthcare programs that can do better.
This is where the rubber meets the road! Help us get SB 810 passed!

In solidarity - and let's get healthy!

Judy Hess, Regional Coordinator
Campaign for a Healthy California

[Zalatix]

1. Already made the call. K&R!

[dana_b]

2. thank you!

I will do so today.