Your 1st term as Governor has been eventful. You defeated the recall and you handled the pandemic very well. Our Covid deaths per capita are significantly below the national average.
The Health Committee in the Assembly in Sacramento has until January 14 to move forward with single payer Assembly Bill 1400 which will be re-introduced by its author, Assemblymember Ash Kalra, then has to be voted by the whole Assembly before the end of January.
You have been a single payer supporter before getting elected in the context of the previous attempt in Sacramento, SB 562.
As a single payer activist I am aware of the situation in Sacramento. The opposition to AB 1400 is intense. Lead by the California Medical Association and the for-profit insurance companies. You have stood up to them before;
In 2021 Democratic Assemblyman Jim Wood introduced AB 890 to allow nurse practitioners in California to practice without physician oversight. The association, in partnership with conservative advocacy group Physicians for Patient Protection, lobbied against the bill. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law which goes into effect in 2023.[8]
If you come out publicly supporting AB 1400 before January and lead, single payer will finally become a reality in California which will lead other states and eventually the Federal Government to adopt a healthcare system that will save thousands of lives and $billions every year.
Your support for single payer helped you get elected helped you beat the recall, now it can help you make history and et re-elected;
. Voters available to Newsom – and other Democratic candidates as well – overwhelmingly support Medicare for All, with registered Democrats supporting the universal healthcare effort by an enormous margin of 84% in favor to just 11% opposed.
. All voters, but particularly progressives and liberals, who comprise a majority of Democratic voters, support Newsom taking action right now to seek permission from the Biden Administration to use federal dollars to fund a state Medicare for All healthcare system. Support for this effort is most intense among progressive and liberal voters – who support the strategy to seek federal funding first by a margin of over 3 to 1.
. The overwhelming popularity of Medicare for All among Democrats, as well as its support among independent voters, would help Governor Newsom defeat the recall, and would significantly strengthen his position among the self-identified progressives in the electorate. Newsom taking action to advance Medicare for All is overwhelmingly popular among those voting “No” on the recall, but just as importantly it drives swing voters on the recall to be more likely to vote “No” on the recall by a margin of more than 5 to 1.