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Single Payer Healthcare Initiative Goes to CA Gov Schwarzenegger

Contact the Governor to express your support for this very important piece of legislation (SB 840).

The Governor can be contacted byby telephone at (916-445-2841) and follow the automated commands, by fax at (916)-445-4633 or by email

It is time that California took the lead in this very important issue.

It is time that the burden for providing health care to the citizens of California, be removed solely from the backs of the business community. Businesses can no longer absorb the double digit increases in health insurance premiums every year, and stay competitive in a global economy.

Health care is not a commodity that should be distributed based on the ability to pay, but rather it needs to be treated as a social service distributed according to medical need?

And our health care system should not be in the hands of investor owned firms that compete not by increasing quality or lowering costs, but by avoiding unprofitable patients, denying care when needed, and then shifting costs back to patients or to other payers?

And Californians should not have to worry about the possibility of bankruptcy, or losing their life savings, should they get sick and lose their jobs.

The rest of the free world understands this, why do we in the US refuse to recognize this simple basic principle?
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Becky said…
I'll write, but I don't know what to say. Does it have a bill #? Maybe you could post a sample lettet that we could cut and paste to e-mail or fax. You're a very good writer. :-)

Let me know.
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