Help CA get last two votes for single payer health care!

[yurbud]

14. Great one! My letter:

I was disturbed to see you abstained on Mark Leno's single payer healthcare bill, SB 810 and urge you to vote YES in time for the bill to be sent to the Assembly.

As you know, previous bills passed both chambers only to be vetoed by Gov. Schwarzenegger, but with a Democrat as governor, there is a real chance that this could become law.

If a handful of Democratic senators block this historic opportunity, it will make a lot of us wonder if you guys actually care about average people or only do bold legislation when you know you have a business owned governor who can be depended on to veto it.

I have a master's degree and taught part time at multiple community colleges at the same time for ten years before any of them offered me health insurance, but even that won't cover my wife and child.

My wife's dad lost his health insurance with his job, but is too young for Medicare, so he drives to Tijuana every month or so for cheaper out of pocket medical care.

That's a disgrace in the richest, most powerful nation on Earth. We have a right to the same kind of universal healthcare people in Europe and every other advanced democracy enjoy.