Re: Important issue to California

[Guest guest]

Dana,

Senator Kuehl is working towards continued authorship of her bill AB

840 with a single payer universal healthcare system for California.

While AB 840 did not pass the 2007 legislative session she does plan

to present this bill again in 2008.

Of interest Kuehl has specifically excluded my profession of

Acupuncturists from this bill as primary care providers. What this

means is that any patient wanting to seek out acupuncture treatments

will be required to first obtain permission from an MD. I

support this bill I just do not support the specific exclusion of

acupuncturists as primary care providers. Acupuncturists have been

primary care providers for 30 years now; from about the time

most states enacted acupuncture laws starting in the seventies after

Nixon visited China.

--- In , " gsgrl2000 " <gsgrl2000@...>

wrote:

>

> And to add to what else is about to happen in California, the

> governor is trying to get his " Universal " health plan passed which

is

> not actually universal health care; it's Mandatory health care

which

> is not the same thing but they would love for everyone to think it

> is. If this should pass it would mean that it would be mandatory

for

> everyone in CA to have health care coverage even if you can't

afford

> it just like car insurance.

[Guest guest]

I question " single payer universal healthcare system " ? What exactly

would that mean? Would the state pick all cost for healthcare or

would it fall on businesses, etc.? Who or what is this " single payer " ?

And why exclude any medical doctors from being a PCP? I'll have to

look into this bill more to know if I agree with it or not. But I do

know I don't agree with Clinton's universal healthcare plan or

govener Swarzenagger's (spelling?) universal healthcare plan.

Dana

> >

> > And to add to what else is about to happen in California, the

> > governor is trying to get his " Universal " health plan passed which

> is

> > not actually universal health care; it's Mandatory health care

> which

> > is not the same thing but they would love for everyone to think it

> > is. If this should pass it would mean that it would be mandatory

> for

> > everyone in CA to have health care coverage even if you can't

> afford

> > it just like car insurance.

>