Who?
Current and future health care professionals, student allies, and community members throughout California. The event is organized by CALA, the California Alliance for Legislative Action.

What?
Convince our California legislators that our healthcare system is need of reform, and we need SB840, the bill that will establish universal healthcare via a statewide single-payer healthcare system. More information on SB 840.

When & Where?
Join us on Monday, January 28, 2008 in Sacramento. We will leave Los Angeles on Sunday, January 27 and return to Los Angeles on Monday evening. Rough schedule as follows:

Sunday, Jan. 27 morning: leave USC HSC
~3pm: arrive, check-in at hotel
~6pm: meet all students from other schools, dinner
Monday, Jan. 28, 9am: check-in at Capitol, last-minute training,
11am: lunch
12pm: Rally on Capitol steps
1-4:30pm: meetings with legislators

Why?
To demand that our state lawmakers address the crisis affecting the health care system and the 6.6 million who are uninsured in California. Both the Senate and the Assembly have passed this bill, before the Governor vetoed it. Find out how your legislators voted, from our SB 840 page. We are 3 Senate votes and 9 Assembly votes away from a veto-proof margin! "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?" John Lewis, activist in Civil Rights Movement

Want an update? Download Minutes from Nov.30th Lobby Day Meeting.

How?
Keck AMSA and CSPHR leaders are mobilizing a coalition of Keck Medical Students and USC MPH students. Transportation to Sacramento via chartered bus and lodging near the capitol is provided for January 27 for a flat rate of $25. Our student organizers will also arrange your lobby day appointments with your representatives.

 On January 12, we will hold a training session to prepare students for Lobby Day. There will also be a training in Sacramento on January 27 with other California student lobbyists. In the meantime, check out the resources below to learn more about SB840 and single-payer insurance.

(1) Signup & pay online & select the $25, all-inclusive option, plus $0.99 processing fee. Extended deadline is January 14, 2008.  

(2) Send electronic receipt to Rebecka Lopez, who will keep track of USC attendees.

(3) RSVP to attend the Southern California Lobby Day training on Jan. 12 by sending email to Cindy Xi. More info available at our events page.

(4) Join our Google Group to stay up-to-date (below)

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If your group would like to participate in Universal Health Care Lobby Day, we would love to have you join us as a co-sponsor. Please contact Cindy Xi & Natalie Ramos.

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Universal Health Care Lobby Day Resources

California Alliance for Legislative Action for Universal HealthCare (CALAUHC)
"'CALA' stands for 'California Alliance for Legislative Action.' In response to the growing number of medically-uninsured and underinsured residents of California, CALA was founded in the summer of 2005 by California medical students affiliated with the American Medical Students Association (AMSA), originally to support a state Senate bill proposing the implementation of statewide single-payer health insurance (California Health Insurance Reliability Act, designated SB840). Led by Renu Tipirneni of the UCSF School of Medicine and Parker Duncan of the UCI School of Medicine, CALA quickly grew into a collaboration of dedicated medical and pre-medical students from nearly all California universities."




Senator Shiela Kuehl's site on SB840 and California health policy
"SB 840, the California Universal Healthcare Act, is California’s plan to establish a system of health insurance to cover all residents of the state with comprehensive benefits, stabilize growth in health care spending, improve the quality of care and guarantee the right of every Californian to choose his or her own physician."




California Physicians Alliance (CaPA)
State chapter of the Physicians for a National Health Program focused on health care reform and bringing single-payer health care to California




One Care Now
"The California OneCareNow Campaign is the nation's first-ever statewide grassroots campaign for universal health insurance."




Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
A nonprofit organization of 14,000 physicians, medical students and health professionals who support single-payer national health insurance.



California Student Physicians for Healthcare Reform (CSPHR)
"As future physicians and healthcare professionals, we are committed to reforming the present system so that everyone will have access to comprehensive, high quality healthcare."



American Medical Student Association (AMSA) - Universal Health Care Initiative
"Universal health care refers to the idea that every American should have access to affordable, high-quality health care." Many educational resources to help understand and take action on this issue.