Health Care Committee
The Health Care Committee is part of a statewide coalition that is working to have California adopt a Single Payer Health Care plan (SB810) that is being sponsored by SF State Senator Mark Leno.
In the past, this bill has received majority votes in the Assembly and Senate, only to be vetoed by a Republican Governor. We now have a Democratic Governor. This is the moment to have SB810 pass both chambers again and persuade Jerry Brown to sign it.
Vermont is leading the way on this effort. Their Governor is proposing a single payer bill. If California can't be number one on this, let's be number two.
The Health Care Committee has been working to support passage and adoption of a single payer health care bill in California. Committee members have been going out into the community to speak on what single payer is, why we need it, and how we can work to pass it.
1. Join us on the third Monday of each month, 7-9pm in Oakland for Health Care Committee meetings. For more information, contact Nancy Friedman, healthcare@wellstoneclub.org
2. Help make phone calls to legislators and constituents in key areas to move the agenda on health care reform by contacting the above email address.
Why do people cling to terrible health insurance? Why do arguments about the cost-benefits of single payer/Medicare for All bounce off so many listeners? How have the conservatives seized and held the high ground on health care? On March 27, 2010 the WDRC health committee and Single Payer Now in San Francisco co-sponsored a training by Cognitive Policy Works on practical, effective ways to use framing to promote single payer health care. Trainers Joe Brewer and Eric Haas, both of whom worked with George Lakoff at the Rockridge Institute, led us through mind-bending exercises to demonstrate people's innate risk aversion and feelings about fairness, how frames trump facts, and how we can reclaim the moral high ground for single payer. Health committee member Jean Tepperman attended the training and wrote this useful summary.
Click here for a copy of the Report.
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