We wanted to make sure you got this important email below! Please sign up for this Spring statewide update from the Nurses on SB 562 and what the plan is to win Medicare for All in California! See below:
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Hundreds of you joined a statewide call in December to learn about the strategy to pass SB 562 and secure Medicare for All in California. Since then, we've continued to knock on doors, canvass at grocery stores and farmers markets, make phone calls, and more.
Since then we've also endured months of sham hearings from the Assembly Select Committee. A month ago, over 800 of us showed up in Sacramento to pack a key hearing in the Capitol.
Unsurprisingly, we're under attack in the media and by the Select Committee which just this week finally released a report with conclusions from their series of hearings. They called for "a variety of ways to lower health care costs and reduce the ranks of the uninsured" rather than the single payer system we so desperately need.
Join an important call next Wednesday, March 21st with the California Nurses Association for a strategy briefing on our plan to pass SB 562, and to learn how you can get involved to help us win Medicare for All in California. If you haven't gotten involved yet, don't worry -- this is a great chance to get started.
We know their patchwork, incremental proposals won't solve our healthcare crisis. We've said all along that the Select Committee was an attempt to stall actual progress on SB 562 -- and we were right. Now more than ever, we need to push back. Together, we can win this - but we have to keep the pressure on.
This is an important opportunity to get an update on strategy, organizing plans and your role in the campaign to pass SB 562 as we enter a new stage in the fight.
We know they are feeling the heat. At the recent California Democratic Party Convention in San Diego, the Sacramento Bee reported that Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon had to avoid the convention and instead hold private meetings in his hotel because of "the nurses public shaming" on Medicare For All.
Thanks for everything you are doing. It's definitely making a difference.
Sincerely,
Holly Miller and Don Nielsen
California Nurses Association
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