CALIF-January 10th Kick Off Rally for Single Payer Healthcare in California

January 10th Kick Off Rally for Single Payer Healthcare in California 12:30pm on the North Steps of the Capitol, Sacramento Sign up for the Bay Area Bus Please make a contribution to Help Finance the Buses Dear Healthcare Activist, 2011 offers a new opportunity to enact REAL health care reform in California, and show the rest of the country how to provide health care for everyone while saving individuals, employers and the State of CA millions of dollars. Senator Mark Leno plans to reintroduce SB 810 again this year. What is different this year is that we have a new crop of Legislators who we need to work with on this issue. We also have a new Governor and Executive Branch including several strong single payer supporters (Insurance Commissioner, Lt. Governor and others) who we plan to engage in this effort. On January 10th, Single Payer Now activists will join the CA Health Professional Student Association (CHPSA) for their annual lobby day and rally. This is a spectacular event, with hundreds of young medical students marching to the Capitol in their white jackets to urge our elected officials to support single payer. These are our future doctors, nurses, pharmacists, surgeons, etc. and they want to be health care providers, not insurance company slaves. Please join us for this important Kick-Off Event for our 2011 campaign to pass single payer in California. Let's show our new legislators and Governor that we are strong, determined, and ready to win. From the Bay area, buses will be leaving from San Francisco at 9am and from the Ashby BART in Berkeley at 9:30. You must RSVP. We will deliver thousands of SB 810 postcards to legislators. We pass the hat the on bus to cover the bus rental and lunch in the capitol. It costs about $30 per person. Give what you can. No one turned away. We want a large turnout to put single payer healthcare on Sacramento's agenda. If you cannot attend the rally, please consider making a financial contribution so others may attend. In Southern California, please contact Lisa Patrick Mudd for carpool information. Please let us know if you can attend the rally and how you can help. ___ I plan to attend the January 10 rally. ___ Please reserve a bus seat for me. I will be leaving from __ SF, ___ Ashby BART. You can reserve a seat by calling Don Bechler at 415-695-7891 or email me at dbechler@value.net ___ I live in Southern California and will contact Lisa Patrick Mudd at 323-316-8933 or by email at Lisa@singlepayernow.net ___ I have forwarded this alert. ___ I want to make a financial contribution. To make a financial contribution, please click here. Or you can send a check to Single Payer Now PO Box 460622 San Francisco, CA 94146 I hope to see you in Sacramento on January 10. Thank you, Don Bechler Chair – Single Payer Now 415-695-7891 www.singlepayernow.net