{"id":823,"date":"2008-02-08T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2008-02-08T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:21:00","slug":"ca-as-state-bill-dies-activists-turn-to-single-payer-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"CA: As State Bill Dies, Activists Turn to Single Payer Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleydaily.org\/text\/article.cfm?issue=02-05-08&amp;storyID=29108\">Berkeley Daily Planet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Advocates of single payer health insurance in California are saying that the collapse of the Nu\u00f1ez-Perata-Schwarzenegger health care bill is a good thing and are moving forward with reviving their own single-payer legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were opposed to the Nu\u00f1ez bill,\u201d Vote Health representative Kay Eisenhower said by telephone this week. \u201cWe considered it a step backwards.\u201d Vote Health is an Alameda County-based health care activist organization.<\/p>\n<p>Eisenhower said statewide single-payer health care advocates will be holding a two-day conference in Los Angeles later this month to talk about ways to put State Senator Sheila Kuehl\u2019s (D-Santa Monica-Los Angeles) SB 840 single-payer health care bill back on track. \u201cSB 840\u2019s not dead,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s only on ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, it seemed dead. After SB 840 passed the state legislature in 2006, Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoed it.<\/p>\n<p>Kuehl revived her single payer bill a year later, and the bill passed the Senate on a 23-15 vote and the Assembly Health Committee on a 12-5 vote last summer, but it stalled in the Assembly Appropriations Committee as attention in the Assembly turned to a compromise bill being put together by Assembly Speaker Fabian Nu\u00f1ez.<\/p>\n<p>The bill\u2019s summary says it \u201cwould establish the California Universal Healthcare System (CUHS) under which all California residents would be eligible for specified health care benefits. The CUHS would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate for or set fees for health care services provided through the system, and pay claims for those services.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkeley Daily Planet: &#8220;Advocates of single payer health insurance in California are saying that the collapse of the Nu\u00f1ez-Perata-Schwarzenegger health care bill is a good thing and are moving forward &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=823\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CA: As State Bill Dies, Activists Turn to Single Payer Bill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-single-payer-health-care-state-efforts"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}