Return to TopLOBBY DAY: JANUARY 2011 FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE!
110 UCLA Students and 560 CA Students Lobbied California State Legislators
in 2009, and Over 1,000 in 2010 !
For Universal Health Care - Single Payer Plan in California for the last two annual Lobby Days -- Student Organized advocacy for public health and healthcare for all in California!
Join us for the next Lobby Day in January 2011 in the State Capital, Sacramento.
Lobby Day, January 11-12, 2009 and Lobby Day 2010 were both huge successes, well attended by over 560 California health professional and pre-health professional students from 15 universities, including over 110 UCLA students -- the most ever! The new Single Payer Plan will be re-introduced in February 2009 by new Senator Mark Leno (D) and will need more co-authors and legislator votes. All students can be activists to help it pass! Get the details and volunteer to help;, with PHSA!
"No Experience Needed!"
Lobby Day student leadership provided excellent training and cohesive teams to visit legislators!We joined hundreds of medical students, public health students, nursing, dental and all other health professionalsand pre-med students and others to change the face of healthcare in our state!
REGISTER! Registration extends through Decdember 2010 (Date to be announced.)
Register for Lobby Day 2011What's included in Registration? Almost Everything!!
California Health Professional Student Alliance -- CAHPSA
Watch YouTube Video of Lobby Day, January 28, 2008
Speaker at the podum is the SB 840 bill's author, State Senator Sheila KeuhlLobby Day in Sacramento: A Sea of Impressive White Coats!
National AMSA President & Vice President Lead the Rally on Capitol Steps!
What is Lobby Day?
Now in its third year, Lobby Day is CALA's annual one-day event in Sacramento that serves as the voice of future healthcare professionals:- who see healthcare as a human right,
- who believe health insurance must be automatic and guaranteed for all Californians, and
- who understand that the profit motive must be supplanted by the goal of improving the health of the population.
What are the Goals of Lobby Day?
The goals of Lobby Day are two-fold:
- to catalyze the passage of SB 810, and
- to inspire medical and other pre-healthcare students to become active in healthcare legislation.
What do we want? "Everybody In! -- Nobody Out!"
CALA members demand that all Californians have health insurance that is not only predictably affordable, but also automatic and guaranteed, high quality and comprehensive; a world where the term "UNinsured" no longer exists; where unpaid medical bills are not the number one cause of personal bankruptcy; and where "healthcare" is not the major domestic concern on people's minds. As the future of healthcare delivery, we demand the creation of a sane and humane health finance infrastructure that focuses on primary and preventive care, not private profits of shareholders.
SB840 would do just that - all while saving Californians billions of dollars each
year (see Lewin Group Report).
Please note that the CA bill has been re-numbered as SB (Senate Bill) 810, SB810.
While passage of SB 810 remains our primary mission, CALA members also support legislation that:
- expands healthcare access towards an end-goal of universal insurance coverage;
- rationally addresses the major cost-drivers responsible for the burgeoning cost of healthcare;
- preserves patients' rights in choosing physicians; and
- allows healthcare professionals to perform their duties of patient care.
CA Health Professional Student Alliance (CAHPSA) in Cooperation with AMSA and Physicians for National Health Plan (PNHP) Present Lobby Day!
What is CAHPSA?
"CAHPSA" (California Health Professional Student Alliance) (http://www.cahpsa.org/) is a coalition of all health professional and allied health professional, medical students, pre-medical public health, dental and all other health professional students who support the concept of universal health care and single-payer plan under CA Senate Bill SB 810, legislation that creates the framework for all Californians to have predictably affordable health insurance that is automatic and guaranteed, high quality and comprehensive.
What is AMSA?
AMSA is the American Medical Student Association, http://www.amsa.org that is a partner in Lobby Day in California. For more local information about Lobby Day, from the AMSA Pre-Medical Chapter at UCLA, please contact the Chair of the AMSA Legislative Action Committee at AMSALegislation@gmail.com
Event Details - Welcome Letter from Organizers of Lobby Day
Welcome to Lobby Day!We invite you to join hundreds of other health professional students on the steps of the State Capitol and in the offices of our State Representatives to take a stand on healthcare reform. This event is organized by the California Alliance for Legislative Action, a fully student-run organization, which has traditionally lobbied in support of Senator Sheila Kuehl's SB 810, The California Universal Healthcare Act -- a bill which will assure quality, affordable healthcare for every resident of California. As future healthcare providers, we are first and foremost patient advocates. However, we should adorn the steps of the Capitol, not just as future providers, but as fellow citizens. It is time to take our profession back! It is time to stand up for our patients and ourselves! Join us in this historic movement. Sincerely,CAHPSA Team LD 2011 |
How did CAHPSA and "Lobby Day" Start and Grow?
CAHPSA began in the summer of 2005, primarily as an organizing body for the first-ever, statewide medical student Lobby Day (Jan 2006) in Sacramento.Over 125 students from 7 medical schools held a raucous rally on the steps of the Capitol, then spent the afternoon meeting with Legislators. The event yielded two additional co-sponsors for the bill.
In 2007, the coalition expanded to include pre-medical and other health profession students; over 250 students rallied and lobbied.
On January 28, 2008, many more hundreds of medical, pre-medical and other health profession students rallied in Sacramento to demand true healthcare reform in the form of passage and adoption of SB 840, the California Universal Health Care bill.
Register now while space is available. The registration deadline is coming up soon..
Webcasts Now Available on Kaisernetwork.org,
(or go to http://www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/alliance/07nov08
The Alliance for Health Reform and Commonwealth Fund
This event featured a panel of experts discussing health reform legislation in Massachusetts. Massachusetts is being watched closely for lessons that might guide national efforts to reduce the number of uninsured and underinsured. Panelists addressed effects of the law on employers, private health insurance and health care costs.
A podcast is also available.