"SINGLE PAYER" - The simplest solution!

[Cleita]

11. They only needed two votes in the Senate to pass it.

Governor Brown said he would not veto it like Arnold had if it passed both houses. The Assembly passed it. Six Democrats refused to vote in the Senate and we only needed two. But we couldn't even get two out of those six. That's how powerful the health insurance industry is that even our Democrats have sold out to them.

We need a campaign that targets them and gets them out of business at least in California so we can move ahead with single payer. It will take draconian efforts like getting all businesses and unions to refuse to do business with them. Of course once they no longer are in business, then we can move in with a Medicare like government run insurance to replace the private insurance so that the unions and businesses can buy it for their employees. It's a start and a matter of folding in medicaid and other public plans to cover everyone.

Once California gets the ball rolling, the other states will follow, hopefully, but I don't have much hope. It would take such a huge grass roots effort to do it, plus I'm sure the insurance companies will fight back with every dirty tactic in the book against running them out of doing business the state but that's what it would take.