Received this e-mail today from the group, Our Revolution:
Our campaign to win SB 562 and universal health care for California is winning. The California Senate Appropriations Committee voted 5-2 in favor of sending the Healthy California Act to the Senate floor for a vote this week.
This wouldn't be possible without you. By taking action together, we have overcome steep barriers—the insurance industry and its lobbyists, members of the corporate and political establishments, and people who said that covering everyone was just too ambitious of a policy goal.
With Republican plans to cut Medicaid and repeal the Affordable Care Act, we can't stop pushing to win universal health care in California. Our job is to blitz every State Senator's office with phone calls in support of SB 562 until it goes to the Senate floor for a vote. Join the effort and call your State Senator today. Tell them to support SB 562, the Healthy California Act, and guarantee that everyone has health care.
The current system has put affordable health insurance too far out of reach for too many, and there is overwhelming grassroots support for SB 562 throughout California, a state that would be one of the hardest hit by Trump's cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
Any system that doesn't guarantee universal coverage is fundamentally flawed. We can't have establishment Democrats soft pedaling the same flawed policies as the Republicans, but that's exactly what's been happening. While the ACA got 20 million more Americans on the health insurance rolls, it's either going to change or be replaced. Medicare for All is the only option guaranteed to cover everyone.
We continue to be the only major country that does not guarantee health care as a right. The insurance and pharmaceutical industries raise costs for everyone, while every day more Americans cannot afford the cost of their care. It's time that changed.
With Trump and the Republicans planning to gut our Medicaid and repeal the Affordable Care Act, the moral imperative of universal health care has never been clearer. Tell your State Senator to pass SB 562 and guarantee universal health care to California.
Thank you for taking action with us.
In solidarity,
Shannon Jackson
Executive Director
Our Revolution
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