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California Senate Passes SB 810,The California Universal Healthcare Act

Single Payer Discussion Moves to Assembly

Watch the Senate Floor Debate.  SB 810 discussion begins 62 minutes into the Senate Session.
View the one hour and 13 minute senate debate.  This is must viewing.  It contains all the arguments for and against single payer.  Special thanks to Senator Leno for being such a strong single payer advocate.  Below is a list of the various senators who spoke,  when they spoke, and one sentence on their comments.  Scroll forward 62 minutes into the senate session to the SB 810 discussion.
 
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We want to thank all the senators who voted yes.  It is important that senators know we appreciate their support so thank them.  Let them know you want universal healthcare minus the insurance companies.  Below is a list of all senators, how they voted, and their Sacramento phone numbers.  If your senator did not vote for SB 810, call them and ask them what it would take for them to vote for SB 810. 
 
SB 810 debate begins on timeline at 1:02:20
Timeline – speaker – what they said
1:02:20 Author Leno from San Francisco introduces and speaks for bill
1:11.50 Runner (R-17 – just north of LA) Opposed.  Taxation removes choice of healthcare from families.  Massachusetts shows voters do not want radical healthcare.
1:16:50 Strickland (R-19 – Santa Barbara) Opposed.  Single payer has the compassion of the IRS and the efficiency of the Dept of Motor Vehicles.   Single Payer is worse than what is being rejected in DC.  Listen to the voters of Massachusetts.
1:19:59 Aanestad (R-18 – Chico) Opposed.  Canada is failing.  Massachusetts went to single payer and it is being rejected.
1:24:38 Romero (D-24 – East LA) For.  System is broken.  #1 cause of bankruptcy is healthcare.  Employers are dropping healthcare.
1:26:48 Harman (R-35 – Orange County) Opposed.  Are you kidding?  SB 810 costs 200 billion.  Kill this bill.
1:28:05 Hancock (D-9 – Oakland) For.  Long list of groups for SB 810.  6 of 11 groups listed in opposition are insurance companies.  MA is not single payer and that is its’ problem.
1:32:28 Pavley (D-23 – Santa Monica) For.  Healthcare costs are rising 3 times faster than wages.  This is an expansion of Medicare.
1:35:58 (Keho D-39 – San Diego)  For.  Keho is chair of Appropriations Committee.  810 is a fiscally sound bill.  Our current system is not fiscally prudent.
1:38;02 (Denham R-12 – Central Valley)  Opposed.  810 is socialized medicine.
1:40:55 (DeSaulnier D-07 – Contra Costa County)  For.  Good for small business.
1:43:11 (Simitian D-11 – San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz counties.   For.  Keep the discussion going.
!;44:31 (Steinberg D-6 Sacramento – He is the Senate President pro Tem (leader of Senate).  For.  Asked Republicans what their fix is.   Asked Republicans where is their rage for a broken system.
1:52:00 Runner (R-17) Opposed.  Families can spend money better than government.  SB 810 is like fixing a flat tire by burning the car.
1:54:24 Steinberg (D-6) For.  Families and businesses are getting shafted.
1:56:00 Cedillo (D-22 – LA)  For.  Republican proposals have been rejected because the car is burning and you only want to fix the tire.
The current system has the compassion of Exxon and the dependability of Amera Quest.
2:00:34 Dutton (R-31 – San Bernardino, Riverside)  Opposed.  Tried to change the subject by saying the problem is that we chased 2 million jobs from California.
2:2:32 Author Leno closes.  59% of Californians want Medicare for All.  He then went point by point and answered all the objections. Cited polls on Brown voters in MA.
SB 810 is physician run healthcare, not insurance company run healthcare.
2:13:14  The vote.  We win 22 to 14.  3 Dems did not vote.  One office is vacant.
 
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