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Major news this week: AB 1400 (CalCare), our single payer bill in California, passed the state’s Assembly Appropriations Committee. This is the second major hurdle for AB 1400, and now the bill officially moves to the California State Assembly floor in the next week for a vote!

Not only that, but the Sacramento Bee published an editorial endorsing CalCare yesterday and the benefits it would provide to every resident of California.

Here are some of the highlights:

• “An estimated 3.2 million people in California lack health insurance. Many more face the crushing rigors of a private system that over-complicates essential medical care and excessively charges patients for lifesaving procedures and prescriptions.”
  
  
• “The benefits of a single-payer system — such as eliminating excessive co-pays, deductibles and prescription costs — are clear. The idea is also popular, supported by more than 6 in 10 Americans, according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.”
  
  
• Lastly, they point out that California’s Governor Gavin Newson campaigned on a platform on single payer and should take his own advice – as he tweeted in 2017, “I’m tired of politicians saying they support single payer but that it’s too soon, too expensive or someone else’s problem.”

We need as many eyes as possible on this article so we can spread the word nationally and build our pressure before the full Assembly votes on AB 1400 next week.

Will you read the article here, and then share it below with your friends and networks on social media to spread the word?

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We know that national pressure will be crucial to getting this bill across the finish line, and that other states will take notice of what happens in California. That’s why it’s important that we share this as far and wide as possible.

We’re so grateful to this entire movement – it’s because of you that we’ve reached this point and are one step closer to passing AB 1400 in the California State Assembly.

Let’s keep going,

Jasmine Ruddy
Organizer
Nurses’ Campaign to Win CalCare

P.S. - Looking for a way to help out? RSVP here to join our virtual phone bank party on Tuesday, Jan 25th, at 6pm PT and help make calls to voters in key districts before the Assembly floor vote.