(Note: This event occurred earlier this week, before the tragic earthquake in Haiti.)

The future of healthcare reform came to Sacramento yesterday

by Shockwave
Daily Kos
January 12, 2010

I joined the California Health Professionals Students Alliance at the Embassy Suites about a mile from the Capitol building.

Students from every medical school in California came in buses the night before.  I was impressed by their enthusiastic support of SB 810 and their ability to explain the advantages of Single Payer and this pivotal legislation which will be re-introduced at the Senate floor next month.

We then marched about a mile toward the Capitol building.

Shockwave’s diary and a 3 minute video of the event:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/12/824274/-The-future-of-healthcare-reform-came-to-Sacramento-yesterday

California Health Professional Student Alliance
http://www.calauhc.org/

This week medical students and other health professional students and colleagues marched on Sacramento in support of Sen. Mark Leno’s SB 810, a reintroduction of Sen. Sheila Kuehl’s single payer bill that was passed and vetoed twice in prior legislative sessions.

Reading Shockwave’s diary and watching the brief video can give you renewal. California’s health professional students understand that Congress abandoned so many important policies that they are ending up with legislation that ostensibly achieves a political victory, but one that is reform in name only, while leaving most of our dysfunctional system in place.

These students know what real reform is. They hold our future in their hands. Thanks to them and to all of the rest of the single payer activists, the process will continue until every single one of us can have the health care that we need.