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Yahoo!Last week, the governor forgot his pledge to serve the people of this state and put their best interests ahead of his own. He again vetoed the only healthcare bill to cover all Californians at a reasonable price. Senate Bill 840 would provide all necessary and preventive medical and dental coverage for all residents of this state. Senator Sheila Kuehl wrote this bill in response to the most out-of-control healthcare "system" the modern world has ever seen. She recognized the need to provide quality care for all people, regardless of employment status, employer, age, or preexisting condition.
More than half of all bankruptcies are the result of a medical emergency. The governor has trouble empathizing with this anxiety because he is an independently wealthy man. Before he was wealthy, he lived in Austria, where he had access to the same kind of healthcare system that he has denied all residents of California. He grew up not having to worry about preexisting conditions, insurance premiums, co-pays, or deductibles.
If you share my outrage at being denied healthcare coverage yet again by a wealthy man from a country rich in social services, write him and tell him so. Write your newspapers and tell them. Write your state senators and assemblymembers and tell them you demand Senate Bill 840 to be made law by overriding the governor's veto. Remind the governor that he was elected to lead, not to kowtow to big pharmaceutical companies and healthcare industry giants. —Shannon Miller
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This is an excellent letter with one small error - Arnold vetoed SB840 last year (2006), not last week. SB840 was passed, for the second time by the California Senate earlier in 2007, then got stalled in the Assembly while they worked through the annual Budget Fiasco.
All the other points made by Shannon Miller are correct - we the people must demand universal single-payer healthcare despite big pharma and insurance company lobbying against us for another veto of SB840. Worse, they may persuade Arnold to send down a mandatory health insurance bill, like the awful mess passed by Romney in Mass.
Campaign website http://www.onecarenow.org has status updates and full details of why SB840 is what we should be pushing for!
green_helmet (anonymous profile)
August 31, 2007 at 5:33 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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