[Sosfbay-discuss] Great News! Single Payer SB 840 (Kuehl) Passes State Senate, heads to Assembly Health

[JamBoi]

    From: Senator.Kuehl at outreach.senate.ca.gov
    Subject: SB 840 (Kuehl) Passes State Senate
    Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:17:50 -0700

    For Immediate Release                             
                                           June 6,
2007

    Contact Sara Rogers (916) 651-4023 

    SB 840 Passes Senate Floor, heads to Assembly
Health

    Senator Sheila Kuehl invites Filmmaker Michael
Moore and patient witnesses to Legislative briefing

    next Tuesday discussing the soon to be released
documentary ?SiCKO? 

    Large Rally to follow featuring Moore, Kuehl and
the California Nurses Association

    National premiere for ?SiCKO? follows later that
evening at the CREST Theater

    SACRAMENTO -- The California Universal Health Care
Act, SB 840, which establishes a single payer
universal health care system in California, passed the
Senate Floor by a vote of 22-14 (final vote of 24-16
expected) and now heads to the California State
Assembly.

    SB 840 covers every California resident with
comprehensive health benefits, contains the growth in
health care spending, and provides patients with total
choice over their doctors and hospitals.

    California is leading the nation on health care
reform with passage of SB 840, stated Senator Kuehl. 
"This is the gold standard for health reform and the
only way to achieve the kind of health care system
that Californians want and deserve."

    Next Tuesday, Senator Kuehl, chair of the Senate
Health Committee, will chair a legislative briefing
featuring filmmaker Michael Moore and three witnesses
who star in Moore's upcoming film SiCKO.

    Moore's documentary is an up-close view of
America's crumbling health care system and what the
health care crisis has meant in real terms for many
insured Americans.

    "This film will hopefully serve as a wake up call
about the way that insurance companies are mismanaging
our healthcare system", stated Senator Kuehl.  "It
shows that insurance companies don?t really want to
improve care, they simply exist to avoid risk.  As a
result the system doesn't work for those who have any
kind of medical risk.  Sooner or later that is every
one of us."

    'Important documentaries like Michael Moore's film
lead people to want to get involved", stated Senator
Kuehl, "SiCKO supports the growing feeling in
California that single payer universal health care is
inevitable."

    The briefing will take place on Tuesday, June 12th
from 12:00 pm-1:30 pm at the State Capitol Room 4203. 
All media and press are invited to attend.  The
briefing will be viewable at multiple locations around
the capitol. 

    A rally, sponsored by the California Nurses
Association, will take place at 2:00 on the West Steps
of the Capitol.

     

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