IMPORTANT CORRECTION REGARDING Monday’s LA Rally
Single Payer Reform is NOT Dr. Dean’s “Public Option”.
No Way. No How.
Regrettably, my email to you yesterday incorrectly and inappropriately linked the new Howard Dean “Public Option” initiative with our 14-year single payer cause and with Monday’s 9:00AM Rally in LA and its sponsors.
Some single payer advocates, including me, have been confused by the “Line in the Sand” petition campaign. Clearly I should not have included it in our Rally email nor sent it to you before reviewing it with our HCA leadership!
Any “public option” proposal (including Dean’s) is not a form of single-payer. In fact, a number of the single-payer sponsors regard “public option” plans as mandate programs expanding for-profit insurance industry and containing no guarantees of affordable, comprehensive, quality healthcare made accessible to all.
Those who signed and forwarded to friends the “public option” petition believing it to be in some way a message of support for single-payer may want to email or call representatives to retract their names from the petition and indicate support for national single-payer bill HR 676 and California’s single-payer bill SB 810 (Leno). It’s important that your representatives hear the message you intended to send!
For more, read this from Physicians for A National Health Program.
Please accept my apology for the error.
Thank you for your continued support.
George Savage
Co-Chair, OneCareNow Campaign Committee for SB 810. A project of Health Care for All—California
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