Health Care for All Action Committee
As part of California Alliance for Legislative Action for Universal HealthCare (CALAUHC we work closely withother AMSA chapters to advocate for quality, affordable health care for all on the federal and state levels. Universal Health Care Lobby Day is January 12, 2009 in Sacramento.Lobby Day provides an exciting opportunity to influence state health care policy and meet students from other California medical schools. For more information, click here.
We also collaborate with other socially-minded student groups, including Student Physicians for Social Responsibility, California Student Physicians for Healthcare Reform, and California Physicians Alliance (CaPA) to host educational events for our peers and to create a united voice on a local, state, and national level.
AMSA leadership institutes and conferences provide students with the opportunity to develop skills in lobbying and public speaking and connect with institutions around the country.
What else can you do? (1) Join us at Keck AMSA speaker
and action events. (2) Join the National HPAC and Keck AMSA listserves.
(3) Learn more about the issues that are important to you, starting with
the resources below.
Contact
Health Care for All Coordinator - Chris
Scannell
Associate Coordinators -
Health Care Access
AMSA
Seacover Project - Study tour providing the opportunity to directly
compare the American healthcare system with the Canadian system
Americans for Health Care - A SEIU project, the largest grassroots health
care reform organization in the country
California Health Professional Student Alliance
(CAHPSA) - A broad-based group of health and pre-health professional
students who advocate for Universal Health Care and a Single Payer Plan
for all of California, and for America. The group exclusively supports SB
810, the California Universal Healthcare Act, as well as the national equivalent,
HR 676 / S 703.
California AMSA Legislative
Action for Universal HealthCare (CALAUHC) - In response to the growing
number of medically-uninsured and underinsured residents of California,
CALA was founded in the summer of 2005 by California medical students affiliated
with the American Medical Students Association (AMSA), originally to support
a state Senate bill proposing the implementation of statewide single-payer
health insurance (California Health Insurance Reliability Act, designated
SB840). CALA organized Lobby Day in Sacramento.
California Physicians Alliance
(CaPA) - State chapter of the Physicians for a National Health
Program, focused on health care reform and bringing single-payer health
care to California
California Student Physicians
for Healthcare Reform (CSPHR) - USC student group advocating for the
reforming the present system so that everyone will have access to comprehensive,
high quality healthcare
Cover the Uninsured
- Campaign to support sCHIP and cover America's uninsured children
One Care Now - California's
365-City Campaign for Universal Health Insurance
Physicians for a National
Health Program (PNHP) - Single issue organization advocating a universal,
comprehensive single-payer national health program