Health Care Reform:
Seeking Solutions Through Interfaith Collaboration
Get Involved
Rally for Single Payer Healthcare
Congregational Materials
Single Payer Health Care
SB 840 - "Healthcare for All"
Informative Links
UU Voices for Health Care - Get Involved
Do you have healthcare experience or an important story to tell? Would you like to help organize the healthcare team in your congregation? Want to reach out to local small business, or to your City Council?
If you want to be part of an organized, state-wide UU Voices for Health Care team, please fill out our sign-up sheet and send it in! We need your talent, your experience, your vision to deal with the moral imperative of healthcare for all.
UU Voices for Health Care Sign-up Sheet
If you have questions or comments about UU Voices for Health Care, please e-mail them to intern@uulmca.org.
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Current Programs Health Care Reform |
Rally for Single Payer Healthcare for All
Thursday, June 19
12:00 Noon to 1:00 p.m.
747 Howard St
San Francisco, CA 94103
(At 4th and Howard St.)
Congregational Study Materials
What follows in the quality of our helping when we begin to know ourselves beyond separateness? .We are not so much helping out, then, because it is "me" needing to tend to "you". We're helping out because it is "us". The more we understand and dwell in that truth, the more we serve simply in the way of things. If any of "Us" needs help. If one of "Our" arms gets caught in a door, naturally we use the other of "Our" arms to set it free. Helping happens not because it's been weighed and considered; it happens because the barriers to its lawful and automatic expression have fallen away.
- from How Can I Help?
by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
Small Group Ministry Session
"When Will Our People Be Healed?"
This program includes readings, songs, a complete curriculum for and about UU Voices for Health Care.
Health Insurance History
In the US and California
Healthcare Glossary of Terms
Practical definition for all the buzz words and lingo that you'll run into working with healthcare reform.
Glossary (by UULM-CA)
Resources for Worship
Themes of Health and Healing
Packed with hymns, quotes, and readings - you can use this resource package as you put together services and events.
Expanding Debate in California's Faith Communities
The California Council of Churches and the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California are collaborating on a project called Health Access for Californians: Expanding Debate in California’s Faith Communities.
They have published a study guide for use in congregational settings: Being the Good Samaritan: Health access for All Californians.
Universal, Single-Payer Health Care
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A "single-payer" health coverage system, refers to who pays the medical bill. With single-payer, there are no longer hundreds of for-profit insurance companies making decisions about your health based on their stock-holders. There is a single, government agency that makes sure all citizens get the care they need. Many consider this the only true definition of "Universal health Care," and it is the model followed by almost all other industrialized nations in the world today.
UU's across the nation are working toward a just medical care system. Many UUs are active in their state's “Health Care for All” chapters, championing the publicly financed insurance fund (single payer solution) such as California's SB-840.
Ten Health Care Myths
How educated are you about health care coverage issues? Do you know what a "Single Payer Plan" is? Have you heard of California's proposed Health Insurance Reliability Act: Health Care for All (CHIRA)?
Read The Ten Health Care Myths. Educate yourself, and then join us in one of the most progressive health care movements in the USA.
SB 840: the Single-Payer California Universal Health Care Act
The California Universal Health Care Act, SB 840, which establishes a single payer universal health care system in California, passed both the Assembly and State Senate in 2006, and then was vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger. It was reintroduced in 2007 and passed the State Senate June 6, 2007 by a vote of 22-14. On July 3, 2007 it passed the State Assembly Health Committee by a vote of 12-5 .
Health Care for All: Information about SB-840
Senator Kuehl's SB 840 Fact Sheet
Healthcare Informative Links
ItsOurHealthCare
A new coalition of organizations focusing on consumer-based healthcare reform.
Helpful Definitions of Single-Payer Terms
Massachusetts Nurses Association
Universal Health Care FAQ
Health Care for All California
Analyzing Cost and Economic Impact - Executive Summary (PDF 379 KB)
the Lewin Group
January 19, 2005
Complete Boston University Report
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