.
.
.
The proposed American Health Care Act, the Paul Ryan’s plan to repeal and replace the ACA/Obamacare has drawn a broad disapproval after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its analysis of the plan. If it passes:
- 14 million fewer people would have health insurance next year than they do under Obamacare.
- The plan would leave 24 million additional people without health insurance by 2026, compared to current law. That would leave 52 million people without insurance by 2026.
- The bill would make a small dent in the federal deficit, reducing it by a total of $337 billion over 10 years.
- The budget savings come by reducing benefits to the poor, including a projected $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid.
Even South County’s Republican Congressman Darrell Issa has strong reservations according to this article:
Though Issa said the Affordable Care Act is not affordable, he said that some provisions should remain intact, such as children staying on their parents’ health care plan through age 26. He said mental illnesses should be covered, and that he would fight against what has been described as an age tax, charging older Americans more for health care, “with every bone in my body.”
Join our Town Halls on the Future of Healthcare in CA!
The Healthy California campaign is holding town halls to promote guaranteed healthcare for all Californians: ” Our healthcare is under attack and as the current administration in DC moves forward to dismantle critical healthcare protections – California is ready to show another path is possible. The Healthy California Act, SB 562 (Lara & Atkins), allows us to go on offense by guaranteeing healthcare to all in California!
Join community members at our Town Halls on the Future of Healthcare in California to learn more about our current healthcare crisis and our proposed solution: the Healthy California Act. You’ll hear from nurses, doctors, as well as business, labor, youth and community – and we want to hear from you!
Check below for the Healthcare Town Hall near you – and join our Healthy California email list to learn more and get involved in our statewide campaign to guarantee healthcare for ALL in the Golden State.”
Saturday, March 18th
Fullerton Town Hall
: 10AM – Noon, Hilltop Banquet Center
1400 Elks View Lane Fullerton, CA 92836
https://www.facebook.com/events/185214138639481/
Sunday, March 26th
Healthcare is a Human Right – March & Rally: 11AM – Assemble at Pershing Square,
532 S. Olive St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 – March, then Rally at City Hall until 2PM
https://www.facebook.com/events/217449502057724
UPDATE: Sunday, March 19, 2017, 5:00 PM-7:00 PM at the OCCUU Church, 2845 Mesa Verde Dr East, Costa Mesa : NOW IS THE TIME documentary on what a single payer healthcare is, how it saves money, and what behind-the-scenes advocates are doing to clear the fog of misperception that keeps us from moving forward.
- One of the actions we can take is to Call our California State Senators ASAP and ask that they support SB 562. The bill will have the first hearing in the Senate Health Committee in the coming weeks.
- Please urge them to publicly support #SB562 for #SinglePayerNow!! We can pave the way for American #HealthcareJustice w/ #MedicareForAll!
- Senator Josh Newman, Dist.29
- email: senator.newman@sen.ca.gov
- phone: (714) 671-9474
- Address: 1800 Lambert Rd, Ste.150, Brea CA 92821
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SenatorNewmanCA(use #SB562#HealthyCA and tag @Campaign ForAHealthyCalifornia)
- Twitter: @SenatorNewmanCA (use #SB562 & tag @4HealthyCA)
*OK, it goes like this: Secretary Price said that 175 Million Americans get their Health Insurance through their Employers. 77 Million get Medicaid through the States. 55 million get Medicare and about 13 million get VA Healthcare Benefits. That puts the number at 315 Million folks who have Insurance before Obama Care. If you add the 11 to 15 Million that get Obama Care now…..and you add the 11 to 20 Million illegal immigrants we have full Insurance at 330 Million folks. Now, if you take away or double the cost of Insurance for those 50 – 64 and then over 70…..from 3 to 1 (Obama Care) to 5 to 1 (America Care)…plus…which means that each state can arbitrarily charge anything they want for old folks,….those folks will become suddenly uninsurable…because of price….alone. Say you are paying $650 bucks a month now for PPO coverage or $147 for Medicare……and you really want to go to ANY University Hospital in Country……………..you can look to paying $1300 a month, plus a $2500 Deductible and about $40 bucks per visit. Pretty soon you are talking real money. In the meantime, the young kids under 35 will get Insurance for $2100 a YEAR and still be Opiod Addicted, suffer from PSTD and self abuse issues. Meanwhile, someone 70 years of age that have been taking good care of themselves will be penalized with double premiums. The Actuarial numbers should be computed by region and location…much as Car Insurance is.
Secretary Price and the whole Trumpster Administration lays prostrate in front of Big Pharma……Just Terrible…..is the best we can say!
Video of today’s presentation in Fullerton:
https://www.facebook.com/CampaignForAHealthyCalifornia/videos/916576448445865/
The documentary Now Is the Time, Healthcare for Everybody will be presented tomorrow at the Costa Mesa OCUU church, at 5:00 PM. We are invited to meet the movie producers, patients, nurses, doctors and health care activists, and join the conversation.
One of the actions we can take is to Call our California State Senators ASAP and ask that they support SB 562 and make sure healthcare is guaranteed in California.
Please urge them to publicly support #SB562 for #SinglePayerNow!! We can pave the way for American #HealthcareJustice w/ #MedicareForAll!
Senator Josh Newman, Dist.29
email: senator.newman@sen.ca.gov
phone: (714) 671-9474
Address: 1800 Lambert Rd, Ste.150, Brea CA 92821
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SenatorNewmanCA(use #SB562#HealthyCA and tag @Campaign ForAHealthyCalifornia)
Twitter: @SenatorNewmanCA (use #SB562 & tag @4HealthyCA)
Excellent. Josh I’m sure is behind it, but let him know you’re behind him.
The others – Moorlach, Bates, Nguyen – will never go for it, but call ’em anyway.
Moorlach (714) 662-6050
Janet (714) 741-1034
Bates (760) 642-0809
Are you going to call Moorlach? It could be interesting what he thinks about Trump/Ryan-care.
Well, I like him on liberty issues and fiscal responsibility and openness … but I think he’s the kind of conservative that doesn’t believe in much social services, thinks the free market will do things on its own … kinda like Ryan.
Pero yeah, I’ll call him on Monday, like I told everyone else to. This is about the state bill for single payer.
How did your talk with Moorlach go? Bates does not accept e-mails from people outside of her district.
This would make a great campaign issue for some Democrat who wants to run against Pat Bates. Hint, hint.
Like, if that Lake Forest / SJC Democrat Mike Levin decided to take her on? That’d be good.
Y’know — that might actually work!
Calls and letters to Josh from his constituents are especially important, not so much to convince him as to arm him with what he needs to convince his fellow swing-district Senators.
It’s been years since I’ve even bothered to write a Congressional or State Lege rep about anything. Now I can not only write Josh, but also send a reasonable note to Philip Chen. And THAT is progress!
All right, got a hold of two state senators on one late Sunday night.
Josh has always been in favor of single payer in principle, he’d like to see some more details of this bill, which has no funding mechanism figured out yet. He may get that – he’s having lunch with Senator Lara this week. He tells tales of the awesome power of both the healthcare industry and the pharmaceutical industry up in Sacramento. He sounds like he’ll support the bill but he thinks there might be a better chance to pass some sort of “public option” that Californians can buy into – like we originally wanted nationwide in Obamacare – and that could eventually lead to single payer.
Moorlach is just ideologically not the type who would trust the California government to run our $200 BILLION healthcare system, and he doesn’t think Governor Brown will sign off on it either. But he will look closely at it once the authors have some kind of funding mechanism worked out; right now it’s just the bare skeleton of a bill. Meanwhile, he is trying to improve the DISCLOSE Act, to make the new rules on the exact size etc. of disclosures less complicated, and less of a windfall to campaign attorneys.
Interesting. Could you let Dr Bill know, in case he isn’t following this conversation? Thanks Vern.