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Resolution Number BRG09.13

Single-Payer Health Care Reform

WHEREAS, President Barack Obama has affirmed again and again that he wishes to enact health care reform that includes a public government-run insurance plan, and having a window of opportunity now where dramatic change is possible with the majority of Americans, doctors and nurses supporting a single-payer healthcare system; and 

WHEREAS, Congress is being presented with new, competing and conflicting reform ideas, with private insurance companies wanting health-care reform to earn them maximum profits if they start covering millions of uninsured Americans, but are not willing to abide by the fair rules, oversight and cost containment that Americans deserve; and

WHEREAS, Congress is beginning to debate legislation to restructure the nation's health-care system, with the aim of delivering a bill to President Obama by mid-October;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the California Democratic Party reaffirms the principle of single-payer health care as an attainable goal, and urges the California Democratic Congressional Delegation to take the lead in supporting the single payer model and to work to bring about permanent cost reduction and universal, affordable and excellent health care for all; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that if Congress does not pass single-payer health care, that instead, at a minimum, the law will include a provision ensuring that states maintain the ability to enact truly universal health care through a state-based, single-payer health plan, specifically with an amendment that authorizes state waivers to the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), in order to enable single-payer states to collect funds directly from employers and continue to collect funds from the appropriate federal programs.

Sponsored by: Region 10 Delegates: Susan Broidy; Cheryl Conway; Stew Jenkins;
Gabriel Zacaria; Hilda Zacarias; Chris Lanier; Sylvia Navarro; Cleo Navarro; Dorothy Reik;
Joseph O’Neill; Cleofas Navarro; Sylvia Navarro; Penny Strowger; Sandy Emberland
 
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Adopted by the Executive Board
Of the California Democratic Party
At its Executive Board Meeting
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Burlingame
July 19, 2009

 

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Resolution Number SAC 09.20A

Support Same-Sex Couples in Their Right to Marry by Repealing Proposition 8

WHEREAS, the California Democratic Party, the California Senate and Assembly, Democratic County Central Committees and Democratic Clubs throughout California opposed Proposition 8, a ballot measure designed to eliminate the fundamental right of same-sex couples to marry, both before the November election and subsequent to Proposition 8’s passage; and

WHEREAS, the 2008 California Democratic Party Platform states that the CDP stands in “support of the LGBT Community in its quest for the right to legal marriage;” with 2010 providing the most opportune time both to maintain the momentum for marriage equality following the post-Proposition 8 public outcry and to ensure that the top of the Democratic ticket is unified in its support for marriage equality; and

WHEREAS, the constitutional questions and issues raised are now pending before the California Supreme Court, while during the same period the Iowa courts have determined that marriage laws shall be extended to same-sex couples;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the California Democratic Party stands in solidarity with same-sex couples and their fight to retain the right to marry by joining with them in urging the voters of the State of California to repeal Proposition 8 within the next two years, should it be upheld by the Supreme Court; and

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the California Democratic Party send copies of this resolution to elected Democrats in the California State Legislature, the Chair of each Democratic County Central Committee in California and to media contacts to which the CDP sends periodic press releases.

Susie Shannon, John Cleary, Garry S. Shay (Authors); Los Angeles Stonewall Democratic Club;
Thomas Patrick O’Shaughnessy; Los Angeles County Democratic Party; (Partial List)

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Adopted by the Democratic State Central Committee of California
AKA "California Democratic Party"
At its Annual State Convention
Sacramento Convention Center
April 26, 2009

Susan Rowe...quite honestly I never know what you are talking about.  My post has absolutely no information and no thought given to the state of California.  I do not live in California.  I do not care what California does.  I don't know enough about California to write about it, therefore I do NOT write about it. 

And by what authority do you even presume to tell me that what I should be doing is asking for Rahm's firing.  GET A LIFE.

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