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LOBBY DAY FOR JANUARY 11-12, 2009 IN SACRAMENTO!
Lobby Day in Sacramento: An Impressive Sea of White Coats!
Universal Health Care Project -- California AMSA for Legislative Action
Join the state-wide movement to ensure all Californians have access to essential quality health care! AMSA is spear-heading this movement on campus in a multi-lateral plan to build support for SB-840, a bill that won a hard fight through Sacramento and was passed in the spring of 2006, to provide health care for all in California! Be a part of this movement. It could be the beginning of a whole new America!
NEW! UCLA's Lobby Day Registration Tops All Schools in California!
105 from UCLA, 560 from All of California -- and Growing!
We had 105 UCLA students registered who attended Lobby Day 09 in Sacramento. These dedicated health professional students included more than 48 Pre-Medical students! From all over California, there were 560 medical students, graduate students in public health, nursing students, dental students, other pre-health students, allied health professional students, and post-doctoral and post-graduate and post-bacc students: All were out in force to lobby our legislators for Universal Health Care under Senate Bill 840 on January 11-12, 2009. All this for the bargain price of only $39.99 per person!We are proud that we were members of the team to make a huge difference to improve California healthcare!
We are powerful! We will change healthcare for our state!
IMPORTANT: LOBBY DAY REGISTRATION: CLOSED BUT PART IS STILL OPEN
== READ UPDATE HERE! ==
Note: While official registration closed on December 12, 2008, there is a limited waiting list for possible available space on the buses, hotel in Sacramento. Please email us if you wish to be added to the wait list.
Watch YouTube Video of Lobby Day, January 28, 2008
Speaker at the podum is the SB 840 bill's author, State Senator Sheila Kuehl
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Welcome to Lobby Day 2009!
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 SB840, 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,
Team LD09
Update for Registration!Formal Registration guaranteeing the inclusive package of bus roundtrip from UCLA / So CA schools to Sacramento and back, and legislative appointments has now closed as of December 12, 2008. But registration for limited participation is still available. Also check the CALA-UHC site for up-to-date information on availability.
Registration is still open: Go to LobbyDay09 Registration
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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.
Register Today at: http://lobbyday09.eventbrite.com/
SB 840 Events - Lobby Day - Healthcare for All!
- Lobby California State Legislators for Universal Health Care - Single Payer Plan in California: January 11-12, 2009 in the State Capital, Sacramento.
- Join hundreds of medical students and pre-meds and others to change the face of healthcare in our state!
- Register now while space is available. The registration deadline is only 3 weeks away: December 5, 2008:
- Register today, only $39.99 Inclusive! Go to http://lobbyday09.eventbrite.com/
National AMSA President & Vice President Lead the Rally on Capitol Steps!
What is Included in Lobby Day Registration? Almost Everything!
The single, low registration fee of only $39. plus 99 cents processing for Training Day (January 11) and Lobby Day (January 12) includes:
- Charter bus from UCLA the morning of January 11, 2009, to and from Sacramento, returning the night of January 12
- Training session from 1:00 PM Sunday, January 11 until dinnertime
- Hotel room at the fabulous Embassy Suites near the Capitol Building for Sunday night, January 11
- Breakfast
- Two lunches (Sunday and Monday)
- Rally on Capitol steps Monday morning, January 12
- Pre-confirmed appointments to meet with legislators and staff on behalf of SB 840 for Universal Health Care, Monday afternoon, January 12
- Materials for both days.
- Optional dinner Sunday night: Banquet with invited Senators, Assemblymembers and other dignitaries / VIPs
(Details and approximate costs of dinner to be announced.)
Questions? Want to help promote Lobby Day? More Information Needed?
Contact: AMSA's Legislative Action Committee, email to
AMSALegislation@gmail.com
Join AMSA Working with the CALA - UHC
California Alliance Legislative Action for Universal Health Care
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What is CALA?"CALA" (California Alliance for Legislative Action) is a coalition of medical students, pre-medical and other health professional students who support Senator Kuehl's SB 840, legislation that creates the framework for all Californians to have predictably affordable health insurance that is automatic and guaranteed, high quality and comprehensive. |
How did CALA and "Lobby Day" Start?
CALA 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 2 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.
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What do we want?
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).
While passage of SB 840 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.
What are the Goals of Lobby Day?
The goals of Lobby Day are two-fold:
- to catalyze the passage of SB 840, and
- to inspire medical and other pre-healthcare students to become active in healthcare legislation.
Register now while space is available. The registration deadline is only 3 weeks away: December 5, 2008.
Register here, only $39.99 Inclusive!
To register online now, go to http://lobbyday09.eventbrite.com/