{"id":7346,"date":"2018-01-03T10:47:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2018-01-03T10:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T18:49:25","slug":"new-years-day-parade-medicare-signals-energized-battle-ahead-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/03\/new-years-day-parade-medicare-signals-energized-battle-ahead-california\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year&#8217;s Day Parade for &#8216;Medicare for All&#8217; Signals Energized Battle Ahead in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"field-wrapper-attribution\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-date field--type-datestamp field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><span class=\"pb-timestamp\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">January 02, 2018\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<h3>&#8220;People are hip to faux solutions and incrementalism and are not buying it. They want Medicare for All\u2014and they want it now.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-authors\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"grouping-prefix\">by\u00a0<span class=\"pb-byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/jon-queally-staff-writer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jon Queally, staff writer<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"shr_canvas2\" class=\"shareaholic-canvas shareaholic-ui shareaholic-resolved-canvas ng-scope\" data-app-id=\"6840204\" data-app=\"share_buttons\" data-title=\"A New Year's Day Parade for 'Medicare for All' Signals Energized Battle Ahead in California\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/01\/02\/new-years-day-parade-medicare-all-signals-energized-battle-ahead-california\" data-summary=\"\">\n<div class=\"ng-scope\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-container shareaholic-ui no-print flat mini\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-wrapper shareaholic-ui\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-animation-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-heading custom\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ng-binding ng-scope\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-button-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"discourse-comments-link\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-img field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"caption-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_large\/public\/headlines\/medicare_for_all_rose_bowl.jpg?itok=GXaXA8Qx\" alt=\"\" width=\"955\" height=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-main-caption field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p><em>Advocates for &#8216;Medicare for All&#8217; and the state-level single payer bill, SB562, marched in the immediate wake of the Rose Parade in Pasadena on Monday, Jan. 1, 2018. (Photo: Keith Durflinger, Pasadena Star News\/SCNG)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p>In the immediate wake of Monday&#8217;s Rose Parade\u2014which takes place annually on New Year&#8217;s Day in Pasadena, California\u2014hundreds of residents and advocates took over the parade route with a march of their own as they called for &#8216;Medicare for All&#8217; and demanded passage of a bill currently stalled in the state legislature that would provide every Californian with healthcare coverage.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"pullquote\">&#8220;People should pay attention to California because it is the example, the model, the bellwether, for what is possible and as California has set the trend for the rest of the country on a myriad of other important issues, it is and will set the trend on guaranteed, single-payer healthcare for all.&#8221; \u2014RoseAnn DeMoro, CNA\/NNU<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those who marched, reports the\u00a0<em>Pasadena Star-News<\/em>, waved large banners reading &#8220;Medicare for all&#8221; and &#8220;Public health not corporate wealth&#8221; as they sang songs, danced along the streets, and emphasized to onlookers the need for a universal healthcare system that excludes nobody.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we\u2019re saying is health care for all, rich, poor, and no matter what race you are,&#8221; Sam Schwiner, a local resident and one of the marchers, told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SB&#8230; 5&#8230; 6&#8230; 2!&#8221; chanted members of the parade. &#8220;It&#8217;s good for me! It&#8217;s good for you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<em>Common Dreams<\/em>\u00a0has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2017\/06\/24\/ire-democrat-who-pulled-plug-californias-single-payer-bill\">reported<\/a>, the progress of SB 562\u2014the proposed bill that would establish a single-payer system in California, the nation&#8217;s most populous state\u2014was derailed in June of 2017 when Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Democrat, decided to pull the plug on its progress by shelving it for the legislative session.<\/p>\n<p>Though Rendon received plenty of criticism from the major backers of the bill, including the California Nurses Association\/National Nurses United (CNA\/NNU) and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/healthycaliforniacampaign.org\/\">Healthy California campaign<\/a>, its supporters have continued to push for its passage, sweeping the state with a tireless door-to-door campaign and vowing to see it brought back before state lawmakers in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to RoseAnn DeMoro, CNA\/NNU&#8217;s executive director, support for the single-payer cuts across ideological divisions and remains extremely popular across the state.<\/p>\n<p>The parade on Pasadena on Monday &#8220;signifies the ongoing popularity of the issue among all facets of our society,&#8221; DeMoro told\u00a0<em>Common Dreams<\/em>\u00a0in an email.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is nothing more mainstream in California than the Rose Parade and to see this level of turnout, enthusiasm and commitment in the early morning of a New Year&#8217;s Day is impressive,&#8221; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ongoing hostility from its opponents\u2014which DeMoro identified as &#8220;establishment Democrats&#8221; and financial donors from the insurance and pharmaceutical industry, for-profit hospitals, right-wing operatives, and corporate interests\u2014she says support for SB562 is only getting stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting longtime organizer Bill Moyer\u2014who once said that &#8220;movements succeed when they win over ever-greater levels of public support for their cause and undermine the pillars of support&#8221; of the status quo\u2014DeMoro says that is precisely what&#8217;s happening in California&#8217;s ongoing battle for single-payer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People should pay attention to California because it is the example, the model, the bellwether, for what is possible and as California has set the trend for the rest of the country on a myriad of other important issues, it is and will set the trend on guaranteed, single-payer healthcare for all,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And people are hip to faux solutions and incrementalism and are not buying it. They want Medicare for All\u2014and they want it now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The time for Medicare for All, she said, has finally come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-copyright-cond\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-copyright field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 02, 2018\u00a0by Common Dreams &#8220;People are hip to faux solutions and incrementalism and are not buying it. They want Medicare for All\u2014and they want it now.&#8221; by\u00a0Jon Queally, staff writer Advocates for &#8216;Medicare for All&#8217; and the state-level single payer bill, SB562, marched in the immediate wake of the&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/01\/03\/new-years-day-parade-medicare-signals-energized-battle-ahead-california\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}