SB840 in California is important for the entire country

[ProudDad]

SB840 in California must be talked about, supported and lobbied for by everyone who really cares about Universal Health Care in this country.

Here's the latest report from State Sen. Sheila Kuehl -- the Chair of the Health Committee in the California State Senate. This is the bill that passed last session and was vetoed by the groppensteroidenfuhrer -- may his soul rot in hell forever...

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Health Reform and the Year of Magical Thinking in California

By State Senator Sheila Kuehl
Chair
Health Committee

"Beginning in January, the Governor ordered his health advisors to sketch the outlines of a plan that would magically “cover” all Californians by simply requiring them to buy health insurance. To this moment, he has refused to negotiate any of his major points with the Legislature. The language for his plan was finally drafted five months later, and shown, under wraps, to a few, select people. Not one legislator agreed with it, and no one would carry the bill as legislation.

To fill the void raised by the Governor’s magical “we must do something this year” drumbeat, the Democratic leaders began crafting their own reform plan. To date, however, the Governor and the Legislative leadership have remained oceans apart on the broad policy strokes of health care while public support for the current insurance-company controlled system has plummeted and support for the reforms contained in SB 840, the Medicare-like fix for California, has grown.

Now, with less than two weeks remaining in the first half of the two-year legislative session, there is still no “something” on the table and the Governor, like a Barnum and Bailey’s ring leader, continues to announce that he will, assuredly, pull a rabbit out of a black hat. Actually, there is no way of knowing if the result would really be a rabbit; it could just as easily be an albatross."

[pinto]

1. Thanks for the update. There's a lot of support across the state to give this one

a fighting chance.

http://www.onecarenow.org/index.html

[Cleita]

2. K&R.

Let's hope Arnie lets this one pass.

[fed-up]

3. a kick/rec for single payer/universal health care for CA and then the US nt