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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nToday, Monday, January 11, 2010, busloads of medical, nursing and 
 public health students as well as single payer advocates from all over the 
 state of California, including the the Bay Area, will converge in 
 Sacramento for a noon rally and an afternoon of lobbying legislators to 
 support the enactment of California's single payer legislation, SB 810 the 
 California Universal Healthcare Act.  \n\nThe event's organizers are from 
 the "California Health Professional Student Alliance" (CAHPSA), whose 
 members and supporters will march through the streets to the steps of the 
 Capitol for a rally at noon.   Speakers at the rally are to include San 
 Francisco's Senator Mark Leno who is the author of SB 810, Assemblyman Paul 
 Fong (D-Mountain View), Dr. James Kahn, President of the California 
 Physicians Alliance, Deborah Burger of the California Nurses Association, 
 CARA (California Association of Retired Americans) Executive Director Jodi 
 Reid,  Andrew McGuire of the California OneCare Campaign, and several 
 CAHPSA members.\n\n"This event will kick off the 2010 campaign for single 
 payer in California" said Don Bechler, chair of Single Payer Now, which is 
 sending a largely Bay Area delegation of single payer activists to 
 Sacramento on Monday.  "Our goal is to once again let the legislature and 
 the governor know how much public support this bill has among Californians, 
 so that it gets through the legislative process, and to the governor's desk 
 by the end of this year.  If he signs it this time, SB 810 will give 
 everyone in California access to healthcare and save money by eliminating 
 the insurance industry.  That won't be accomplished by the current 
 legislation in Congress."  																																									Single 
 payer legislation has been passed twice by the California legislature -- 
 only to be vetoed twice by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.\n\nFor more 
 information, call J.B. Fenix of CAHPSA at 203-464-1892 or Don Bechler at 
 415-810-5826;  or email dbechler@value.net, or visit 
 www.singlepayernow.net.\n \nSingle Payer Now is a statewide grassroots 
 advocacy group based in San Francisco. It educates and trains activists to 
 advocate for healthcare minus the insurance industry. In California, it 
 works toward the enactment into law of SB 810, the California Universal 
 Healthcare Act; and in Congress, HR 676, the U.S. National Healthcare Act.  
 For more information, visit: www.singlepayernow.net.\n\nCAHPSA is a 
 broad-based group of health and pre-health professional students who 
 exclusively support SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare Act, as 
 well as the national equivalent, HR 676 / S 703.  For more information, 
 visit www.cahpsa.org\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/11/18634938.php
SUMMARY:State-wide Rally & Lobby Day for single payer in Sacramento today
LOCATION:steps of the Capitol building in Sacramento
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/11/18634938.php
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