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Newsom campaigned on single-payer health care for California.

  Gov. Gavin Newsom made guaranteed health care a central piece of his gubernatorial campaign some four years ago, promising specifically to deliver a single-payer system that would give every resident free access to comprehensive treatment. In an April 2018 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, however, Newsom did what he’s done on numerous issues …

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Single-payer healthcare is the right system. Can California build it on its own?

MICHAEL HILTZIK |BUSINESS COLUMNIST JAN. 14, 2022 6 AM PT California, which has shown the determination to go it alone in areas such as environmental protection, scientific research and workers’ rights when its values conflict with policies at the federal level, is moving forward with its most audacious effort yet. That’s a plan to create …

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Save Our Seniors Network Rebuttal to Newsom’s veto of AB 279

Sobering lessons for the AB 1400 fight can be drawn from the campaign as well as the case made for AB 1400, as currently it is legal for private operators to endanger seniors, particularly oppressed nationality seniors, disproportionately. Save Our Seniors Network (SOSN) is an all-volunteer network of individuals and organizations working to secure the …

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Facing Thousands of Dollars in Medical Expense

Christopher Rowland Yesterday at 5:41 p.m. EDT Jamie Azar left a rehab hospital in Tennessee this week with the help of a walker after spending the entire month of August in the ICU and on a ventilator. She had received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in mid-July but tested positive for the coronavirus …

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Democracy Now Interview with Ady Barkan’s New Documentary “Not Going Quietly”

  We speak with healthcare activist Ady Barkan, the 37-year-old lawyer and father who, since his ALS diagnosis in 2016, has devoted his life to campaigning for universal healthcare. He has continued to speak out even after losing his voice and now uses a computerized system that converts his eye movements to speech. Barkan is …

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