For millions of Californians, there is a new option: health care for all in a fashion that keeps medical decisions in the Golden State. Several hundred people demanded just that in Sacramento today as they marched on Sacramento in support of Senator Mark Leno’s SB 810, the California Universal Health Care Act.
Disgusted with Obama’s abandonment of a single payer model, California health care reform advocates have turned their collective backs to the Federal effort. Not only does SB 810 offer a single payer scheme, but it also differs from DC’s vision in one critical aspect:
It’s CONSTITUTIONAL
The assembled crowd, including many doctors and nurses, were prepared with printed signs and chants calling for passage of the bill introduced last spring by Leno. Deborah Burger, Registered Nurse and president of the California Nurses Association expressed her opinion of the national health care bill saying,
“We’re going to show the politicians in DC what real health care reform looks like.”
This split between single payer advocates and supporters of Obama-endorsed HR3200 could add yet another faction to California’s quickly growing sovereignty movement, as passage of SB810 will require assertion of the Golden State’s authority as described in the 10th Amendment to the constitution. Federal ERISA laws currently challenge the ability of states to provide health care and would need to be implicitly or explicitly nullified by Sacramento before implementation of AB810 could occur.
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