Healthcare is a Human Right.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) made history by expanding health insurance to millions of Californians for the first time.  It is not perfect and needs improvement.

Even with the ACA, 3,000,000 California residents are still uninsured and many with insurance face high drug costs, co-pays, deductibles and premiums - putting healthcare out of reach.

We need to work for improvement at the Local, State and Federal Level.

The HealthCare Workgroup is your local resource to do that

We began meeting in March  2017
and continue to meet monthly to plan our work.

Updated: June 2019

What we do

Overall purpose

To protect and expand access to affordable, quality health care and reproductive health services.

Goals of Group:

1. Educate ourselves regarding our health care system and improvement options including the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Single Payer Health Care

2. Identify strategies for engaging with our community including individuals and organizations

3. Identify and promote government advocacy actions at the local, state and federal levels.

4. Develop, implement and evaluate a public education plan

GET INVOLVED!

Join us and we'll put you on our mailing list and keep you on top of events and happenings in the area. Fill out the form and we will be in touch with you as soon as we can.

Projects

• Sponsor Health Care Rallies in Placerville/El Dorado County
   

• Community Education at the El Dorado County Fair
   

• Improve Access to Reproductive Health Services
  for Teens and Uninsured People
   

• Collaborate with the County Dept of Public Health,
  Schools & Local Providers to Produce and Distribute
  a Wallet Card for Teens with Local Resources
   

• Sponsor Community Education Programs
  on Medicare & Social Security
   

• Lobby Sacramento Legislators for Support of
  California Senate Bill SB-562 for Single Payer Health Care

Partners

Our Partnerships are Vital to Our Success
and We Can Accomplish So Much Together.

• Healthy California www.healthycalifornia.org

• Health Care for All www.healthcareforall.org

• El Dorado County Department of Public Health

• El Dorado Union High School District

• Marshall Medical Center OB-GYN Department

• The local Democratic Party