Single Payer -- Overwhelmingly Supported at OFA Outreach in Van Nuys CA

by: lindasutton

Sun Jun 28, 2009 at 11:29:05 AM PDT

6/27/09  Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles Healthcare Forum
Co-sponsored by PDA-SMM, Valley Democrats United, SoCal Grassroots,
North Valley Democratic Club, SCV Democrats, and DPSFV
Van Nuys State Building, Van Nuys, CA  (Over 100 attending).

HEALTH CARE SURVEY of 88 returned forms:

78 favor SINGLE PAYER. 7 checked "public option" (but 5 were double votes with SP) and 5 gave PO as a 2nd choice.

83 said that "insurance, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries exercise TOO MUCH influence over Congress. 71 said this of the president.

81 said "healthcare is a right"

82 agreed with "our healthcare system in broken"

79 have insurance; 45 are happy with it; 24 pay for it themselves, 15 paid by employer,20 are a combination, 17 others were Medicare.

67 "agree with President Obama's three principles of reform" but many said they needed more details.

SOME COMMENTS ENTERED ON THE SURVEY FORMS:

CHANGE CALIFORNIA'S INITIATIVE PROCESS NOW!

by: lindasutton

Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 20:02:39 PM PST

The Initiative Reform Task Force met during the Democratic Party's November E-Board meeting in Anaheim to propose changes in California's initiative process. Chief among them is the immediate creation of a statewide "watch network" to analyze proposed initiatives as soon as they appear-- BEFORE they are released for signatures.

Findings will then be published widely on the internet through both websites and e-mail networks. This requires no action by the legislature. It requires grassroots activists to join together and become researchers and bloggers who assemble and disseminate information about the propositions that are about to enter the pipeline.