Actions for Health Care Reform
California Physicians for a National Health Program and the UCSD California Health Professional Student Alliance welcome the Drive for Universal Health Care to San Diego as the first stop on their West Coast tour which will include 20 cities in 3 states.
The tour includes Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg, who produced and directed The Health Care Movie, a feature documentary explaining the history of the Canadian health care system and contrasting its accomplishments with the problems in the USA.
The divergence between the two countries has only been enhanced by the complexity, inefficiency, omissions, and confusion created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA-Obamacare.) Creating and marketing this Rube Goldberg system involved not just a chaotic roll out and web site but also has already cost/wasted over an estimated $6B nationally, with $1.3B in federal dollars coming to California -- none of it used to treat one sick person.