<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://observer.com/2017/06/single-payer-health-care-california-bill-pulled/" class="">http://observer.com/2017/06/single-payer-health-care-california-bill-pulled/</a><br class="">
<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div id="primary" class="content-area" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: Calluna, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 35px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: none; width: 665px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex: 1 1 0%; min-width: 0px; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><main id="main" class="site-main" role="main" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><div class="article-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><article id="post-961581" class="style-opinion status-publish tag-single-payer-healthcare-system nyo_post_style-opinion nyo_post_hidden-nyo_homepage channel-politics post-961581 tag-healthcare-2 tag-single-payer-health-care location-california type-post format-standard channel-national-politics location-national post has-post-thumbnail" data-post="961581" data-title="Corporate Democrats Sabotage Single Payer Bill in California for Wealthy Donors" data-url="http://observer.com/2017/06/single-payer-health-care-california-bill-pulled/" data-page-url="/2017/06/single-payer-health-care-california-bill-pulled/" data-date="2017-06-26 11:45:41" data-date-iso="2017-06-26T11:45:41+00:00" data-author="Michael Sainato" data-coauthors="Michael Sainato" data-channels="Politics, National Politics" data-piped-channels="Politics|National Politics" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 28px;" class="">Led d by National Nurses United, progressives in California have been pushing SB562, a bill that would create a <a href="http://observer.com/2017/05/nancy-pelosi-rejects-single-payer-health-care/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">single-payer</a> Medicare for all health care system in the state. On June 23, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon shut down the bill despite Democrats holding the State House, Senate and governorship, providing the opportunity for <a href="http://observer.com/2017/02/chelsea-clinton-congressional-run-democratic-party/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">Democrats</a> to easily pass the bill. <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">The Los Angeles Times</em> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-single-payer-shelved-20170623-story.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">reported</a>, “Rendon announced late Friday afternoon that the bill, Senate Bill 562 by state Sens. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) and Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), would not advance to a policy hearing in his house, making it all but certain the measure will not be acted upon this year.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 28px;" class="">Rendon, in a brief statement, called the bill “wholly incomplete.” Hours before, according to a statement from CNA/National Nurses United co-President Deborah Burger, the California Nurses Association “submitted an additional set of proposed amendments in advance of the first Assembly hearing to begin the ‘completion’ of the bill Speaker Rendon had said was missing, a clear sign that his decision was not only unconscionable but also disingenuous in even the reasons he cited for freezing the bill.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 28px;" class="">However, given his ties to the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, it’s not surprising that Speaker Rendon shut down the bill. In an election <a href="http://observer.com/2017/06/california-democratic-party-chair-race-ineligible-votes/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">swung</a> by fraudulent votes, his senior adviser, <a href="http://observer.com/2017/05/california-democratic-party-chair-eric-bauman-dirty-politics-pedophilia/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">Eric Bauman</a>, was recently elected by party insiders to chair the California Democratic Party Chair. Bauman received <a href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Democratic-adviser-Eric-Bauman-collects-cash-to-8088098.php" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">over $100,000</a> in 2016 lobbying for the pharmaceutical industry against Prop 61, which would have capped prescription drug prices in California.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 28px;" class="">In 2015, the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Sacramento Bee</em> reported that Rendon <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article24913978.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">received</a> over $36,000 from drug makers. In April 2017, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">IBTimes</em> reported that House Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senate President Kevin De Leon and Gov. Jerry Brown—all Democrats—have received a combined<a href="https://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?s=CA&y=2016,2015,2014,2013,2012,2011,2010,2009&f-fc=2,3&c-t-eid=70023,11022811,6468707&d-eid=3125,188,10450,3279,3622,17299,3294,10769,10785,1765920,10792,4722,1212,12970,22278634,22285615,22215102,26400724,38566999,2027,1753,7991,4122,42700957,47951,2834#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class=""> $370,000</a> from groups opposing single-payer health care legislation. Since 2010, these lawmakers have received <a href="https://www.followthemoney.org/show-me?s=CA&y=2016,2015,2014,2013,2012,2011,2010,2009&f-fc=2,3&c-t-eid=70023,11022811,6468707&d-ccg=8&d-ccb=128#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">$3.4 million</a> in campaign donations from the health insurance industry. While California voters and progressive groups demand single-payer health care in the state, the <a href="http://observer.com/2017/05/ro-khanna-admits-democratic-primares-rigged-for-hillary-clinton/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">Democratic establishment</a> in California has been bought and paid for by the pharmaceutical and health care industries to prevent it from becoming a reality.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 28px;" class="">“At a time when the United States is the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care for all, and when tens of millions of Americans are uninsured or underinsured because of outrageously high costs, California has the opportunity to lead this nation in a very different health care direction,” Sen. Bernie Sanders <a href="https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/878674662565175296" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">said</a> in response to Speaker Rendon’s decision to pull the plug on the bill. “If the great state of California has the courage to take on the greed of the insurance companies and the drug companies, the rest of the country will follow.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 28px;" class="">Everyday,<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16BDG1_rAMYWJIPRap0_Yu7oKgISiiZlEOUlt1JTvGCc/edit#gid=1939319039" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class=""> five people</a> in California die due to lack of health insurance. Several <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/191504/majority-support-idea-fed-funded-healthcare-system.aspx" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">polls</a> have shown that a majority of Americans support a Medicare for all health care system. That this bill was pulled—despite being <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/01/california-senate-passes-single-payer-health-care-plan/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">passed</a> by the State Senate—signals the extent of<a href="http://observer.com/2017/04/thompson-estes-special-election-kansas-democratic-party-progressives/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class=""> corruption</a> within the <a href="http://observer.com/2017/04/hearing-set-dnc-class-action-lawsuit-bernie-sanders/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">Democratic Party.</a> In order to become a party that fights for the policies they market themselves with, the Democratic Party must purge itself of leaders that prioritize the interests of <a href="http://observer.com/2017/05/dnc-class-action-lawsuit-field-organizers-convention-bonuses/" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none;" class="">donors</a>over voters.</p></div><footer class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; 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