Area covered: Sacramento County and surrounding area

Current Activities and Events:

SOCIAL POLICY: HEALTH CARE
LWVC Health Care Workshop
Leadership Council on Saturday, May 17
in Sacramento
What’s the forecast for SB 840 and single payer in 2008?
Get the good news at the Leadership Council Health Care Workshop!
OneCareNow’s 15-member State Strategy Group, which includes the LWVC, has built
strong support for single payer health care among Californians. League members were
among the 200-plus strategy group members who attended a two-day planning summit in
February. The resulting second-year campaign strategy will build on the success of the
365-City Campaign in 2007. This campaign commits us to continue building grassroots
support for single payer health care. We will move SB 840 to the Governor’s desk this
year.
This workshop will provide advocacy tools for League members, effective strategies to
continue expanding statewide support for single payer and answers to these critical
questions:
Is our strongest opponent really the insurance industry?
Who are the major untapped supporters for SB 840?
What can we do to veto-proof SB 840?
Health Care for All-California (HCA-CA) Executive Director Andrew McGuire will
present our workshop. He developed the 365-City Campaign and recruited other single
payer organizations to form a coalition that is now the State Strategy Group. Fighting
giants like the health care industry is not a new experience for Andrew. He stood up to
the tobacco industry and won. He organized the Million Mom march on Washington, DC.
NOVA won its first EMMY award when it aired Andrew’s first documentary film,
Here’s Looking at You, Kid, nationally on PBS.
In Andrew’s words, “We are the people who will win single payer health care in
California.”

First Saturday Monthly Meeting Schedule

Hart Senior Center, 27th & J Streets, Sacramento

10 am to Noon, Redwood Room West

Saturday, February 4, 2006, 10:00AM to 11:45AM

Business Agenda
        Introductions
         Agenda Approval
         Treasury & Minutes Reports

ACTION AGENDA

The State of the Union address, by President Bush, is Tuesday at
5PM. He will lay out his proposal for fixing our broken health care system.
We will discuss, evaluate, and create talking points, messages and a frame
for responding to the proposal.

Please bring to the HCA meeting clippings from the newspapers, notes
that you have taken and copies of the letters you are writing to:

1. Senators Boxer and Feinstein,
2. your Representative in Congress
3. Senator Kuehl, and
4. Letters to the Editor*.

Our conversations for the next few weeks will hinge on the State of
the Union address. Your participation in this exercise will help us all
voice a strong, reasoned message to our friends and to our leaders in
support of universal, single payer health care -SB 840.

* I predict that the Sacramento Bee will have a section in the Sunday Bee
(February 5th) with your letters in response to the State of the Union
speech. I encourage you to send them in as soon as you get them written.
Remember 200 words or less.

Regular Activities: tabling

Contact:

Carolyn Negrete
916.424.5316
cnegrete@comcast.net
5634 Delcliff Circle
Sacramento, CA 95822

Randy Hicks
916.803.0702 cell
rhfactor_98@yahoo.com .