You can help defeat “socialized medicine” in California!
This bad idea has failed before, so let’s stop government-run health care again!
A “single payer” health care system is one in which a single entity—the government—collects almost all revenue and pays almost all of the health care system’s bills.
As such, AB 1900 would result in tax hikes, long waits for treatment, and rationing of care.
Please contact your California state assemblymember (especially if he or she is a Democrat) to say: “Vote NO on AB 1900 — this will result in higher taxes, long waits, rationing, fewer doctors, and less treatment. Don’t take away my private insurance. Oppose AB 1900.”
EASY ACTION STEPS
1. Find your own California state legislators and their contact information. Simply enter your voter registration address here.
2. When you see the website links for your own legislators, click on your assemblymember’s.
3. On their home page, click the “Contact” button (usually on the upper right).
4. Use their web form to send your message to “Oppose AB 1900.” Also, call if you can (you can leave a voicemail on weekends, and before and after business hours).
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Only fools support the harmful notion of socialized medicine. Because where government-controlled healthcare has been tried, it’s failed.
As Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute wrote on March 4:
“…consider the human cost of single-payer.
“Canadian patients waited a median of 28.6 weeks in 2025 for treatment from a specialist following referral by a general practitioner, according to the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute.
“More than 7 million people are currently on waiting lists for hospital treatment from Britain’s National Health Service.
“Sacramento struggles to run Medi-Cal. How will it manage a $500 billion takeover of the entire health system? “The progressives who support single-payer don’t have a good answer to that question — because there isn’t one.”
“In 2016, Canadians waited an average of five months for medically necessary specialist treatments. That is more than twice the average wait time in 1993. In fact, when compared to 11 similar countries, including the United States, a recent study shows that whether it’s emergency room visits, same or next day appointments when you’re sick, seeing a specialist, or getting elective surgery, Canada’s wait times are the worst.”
Genevieve Wood, “3 reasons why socialized medicine is bad for America’s health,” The Daily Signal, 11/20/2018
“The best way to regulate these matters and the best way to achieve results is not just to concentrate on how you pay for everything, but to concentrate on how you keep the costs down. We need an approach that will put the consumer of medical services in the driver’s seat and that will not just help to pay for things. If the costs keep skyrocketing, what good is it to keep throwing money after those higher costs? We need a system that will bring those costs down. And the system that brings the costs down in every other area of our lives is a consumer-policed system of competition where people have the right to make their own choices and can then carry the dollars that they’re going to use in a way that achieves the best results for them.”
Alan Keyes, Iowa Republican Party Debate, 12/13/1990
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