We must pass real, comprehensive, single payer health care in California and at the federal level.
Here in California, many concerned citizens have been working on sharing information on SB 840, a bill for single-payer universal health care. It is not enough to say that one is in favor of universal health care-that keeps dollars that Americans need to live on, going to the administration of insurance companies, sometimes as much as 30% of premiums. Again, Congress is sitting on a plan, (HR 676-the Conyers-Kucinich bill), that would reduce those costs down to 3-4% and provide the kind of healthcare that all the other "rich" nations of the world already have. It was recently reported that Americans rank 27th in their "healthiness" compared with the rest of the world, yet guess who spends the most?
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