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	"author_name": "DSA-LA Healthcare Justice Committee",
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	"title": "2023 Socialist Campaign for CalCare!",
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	"description": "DSA-LA’s Healthcare Justice Committee invites you to join the 2023 Socialist Campaign for CalCare! Sign up for important updates! As socialists, we believe that healthcare is a human right. Bernie Sanders awakened millions of Americans to the possibility of a humane system with Medicare for All, but we have since seen Biden’s national public option disappear and Obamacare health plans deliver increasingly expensive premiums with worsening health outcomes. We cannot accept defeat on this issue when 69% of registered voters and 87% of Democratic voters support Medicare for All. We must fight on the frontlines, arm in arm with nurses, doctors, activists and our comrades in the multi-racial working class. Corporations and wealthy donors have tightened their grip on the Democratic party, but they will not succeed if we the people rise up to show California’s Democratic leaders that playing politics as usual isn’t going to work in 2023. In California we have a rare legislative opportunity to enact a statewide single-payer health system with a bill that should be introduced in the state legislature THIS legislative session. The Guaranteed Health Care For All Act (#CalCare) is a bill that would create a statewide, single-payer system of healthcare coverage for all California residents, free from premiums, deductibles, co-pays, and co-insurance. CalCare would cover all medically necessary services, including: oral health, audiology, vision, mental healthcare, prescription drugs, reproductive care, and long-term care - regardless of income, age, immigration and employment status. And it’s not new! California Democratic leaders are counting on a distracted and forgetful electorate! A single-payer healthcare bill was voted on in the state legislature in 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2017. It even passed in 2006 and 2008, only to be vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger! The 2022 bill (AB1400) was authored by assembly member Ash Kalra and co-authored by 20 Democratic assembly members, but in the last hours of the legislative session on January 31st Ash pulled the bill from the floor vote, tabling it for 2023 to spare corporate Democrats from going on record opposing the bill. Read about the history of single-payer in California: A brief history: https://hc4us.org/california-single-payer-movement/ An in-depth history: https://healthcareforall.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/History-of-California-Single-Payer-Legislation-Movement_1997_2022.pdf What happened in 2022: https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/02/california-single-payer-legislature/ And watch a November 2022 update from Ash Kalra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_tfh2vUupM This is why we must fight for #CalCare NOW. Lawmakers will only fight for CalCare if the public demands they do. Otherwise they’re more than happy to push it off another year. The 2023-2024 session opened on December 5th and the deadline to introduce bills is February 17th, 2023. Democrats have a supermajority in the assembly and senate, meaning they don’t need a single Republican vote to pass bills. So we must act now. The 2023 Socialist Campaign for CalCare will have two phases:   Phase 1 (January 3rd - February 17th, 2023) DSA-LA HJC will lead an effort to demand that lawmakers across the state introduce CalCare by the February 17th deadline. This will include weekly texting/phonebanking Zooms, tabling, and legislative visits/rallies. Phase 2 (February 18th - October 14th, 2023) DSA-LA HJC will lead an effort to demand that Democratic state lawmakers vote to pass CalCare at every legislative benchmark until it reaches Governor Newsom’s desk by the October 14th, 2023 deadline. This will include canvassing all across the city, petition drives, billboards, letter writing, texting, farmers market/event tabling, community events, op-eds, rallies, marches, labor union outreach, and more.   2023 Legislative Schedule Feb. 17: Last day for bills to be introduced Apr. 28: Last day for policy committees to hear and report to fiscal committees fiscal bills introduced in their house May 5: Last day for policy committees to hear and report to the Floor nonfiscal bills introduced in their house May 19: Last day for fiscal committees to hear and report to the Floor bills introduced in their house June 2: Last day for each house to pass bills introduced in that house Sept. 14: Last day for each house to pass bills. Oct. 14: Last day for Governor to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature on or before Sept. 14 and in the Governor&#x27;s possession on or after Sept. 14 We can all see the writing on the wall. Governor Newsom wants to be president. And he ran his gubernatorial campaign on a promise to fight for single-payer healthcare. And yet he has been silent on CalCare. The last thing he wants is this bill landing on his desk the year before the 2024 election. Let us embrace this challenge and show corporate Democrats like him that Californians - and Americans - want and deserve a humane health system.",
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