CALIFORNIA - 3 Letters needed from you RT NOW re passing sb810

Write 3 Senators Today For Healthcare To Pass SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare Act, We Need You to Write Letters to Senator Steinberg, Senator Leno, and Your State Senator Dear Healthcare Activist, SB 810 will be voted on in the Senate Appropriations Committee on January 17, and hopefully on the Senate Floor in late January. For these votes to be successful, we need you to send a letter to your State Senator, and State Senators Mark Leno and Darrell Steinberg. Letters have proven to be a very effective way to express our concerns with legislators. Your State Senator can be found at http://192.234.213.69/smapsearch/framepage.asp. The address for all Senators is State Senator ( their name ) State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814 Senator Leno is the author of SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare Act. Senator Steinberg is the President pro Tem (leader) of the Senate. The make up of the State Senate is more conservative than in previous sessions. The 15 Republicans are opposed to universal healthcare. At the same time, the make up of the 25 senate Democrats is more conservative. The senate has 40 members. We need 21 votes to move SB 810 to the State Assembly. Seven Democrats in particular need encouragement to support universal healthcare. They are Calderon (D-30), Corea (D-34), Hernandez (D-24), Price (D-26), Rubio (D-16), Vargas (D-40), and Wright (D-25). Arguments that we have heard from the seven reluctant Democrats are: (1) They want to see how the national healthcare program works out. Our counter argument is even if everything goes perfectly, the national legislation will still leave 23 million people without insurance. 23 million uninsured people translates to 23,000 deaths a year. SB 810 would leave no one uninsured. (2) The reluctant senators have costs concerns. This is a unfounded concern. Nationally, single payer legislation such as HR 676 would reduce the national healthcare bill by $400 billion a year. The new national legislation will add layers of new bureaucracy costs to our healthcare bill. Studies for single payer healthcare in California have concluded that we would save tens of billions of dollars. Please write a simple letter asking the 3 senators to work hard to pass SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare Act. We ask you to write as a letter counts as much as 100 emails or 10 phone calls. Please let us know to whom you have written a letter. And please let us know if you can help call activists from various Senate districts to encourage them to write a letter. And we encourage you to forward this alert. ___ I have written a letter to Senator Leno. You can also thank him for authoring SB 810. ___ I have written a letter to Senator Steinberg. ___ I have written a letter to my Senator. He/she is ______________ ___ I have forwarded this alert. Thank you, Don Bechler Chair - Single Payer Now 415-695-7891 www.singlepayernow.net Senate Roster - How we think Senators will vote on SB 810 The address for all state senators is State Senator (their name) State Capitol Sacramento, CA 95814

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