Internet blogs from around the country suggest some showings of "SiCKO" have promoted spontaneous powwows among viewers disgruntled with the status quo. Nurses nationwide organized to attend the movie's opening night show in June, where they handed out information on guaranteed health care using a single-payer model. The local activists, many of them Democrats, planned to circulate petitions near the theater Friday backing a bill before state legislators that would guarantee universal health care statewide.
The single-payer health coverage plan proposed by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, calls for replacing private health insurance with comprehensive coverage managed by the state. The group has invited a representative from Kuehl's office to discuss Senate Bill 840 at a local gathering later this month.
Kuehl, who authored a companion bill that spells out funding mechanisms, called on Moore to testify before the Legislature in mid-June. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who vetoed Kuehl's single-payer plan last year and is expected to the same this time around, backs his own plan. Kuehl's representative will speak at a health care forum planned July 31 at St.
Stephen's Episcopal Church, 24901 Orchard Village Road, in Valencia. For information, call Lutness at (661) 755-3772. Internet blogs from around the country suggest some showings of "SiCKO" have promoted spontaneous powwows among viewers disgruntled with the status quo.
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