Welcome to a vital political tool for the California single payer movement!

Operation Single Payer is a project developed in 2010 by Physicians For a National Health Program, California Chapter, in response to the single payer movement’s lack of influence in the national reform process. The project builds teams of single payer constituents in every congressional, state assembly and state senate district in the state. These teams work in unison with the state and national single payer coalition leadership using conference calls with regional coordinators.
This approach is called relationship-based advocacy, an effective addition to the traditional message-based advocacy (email/fax/phone blasts). Unlike message-based advocacy, relationship-based advocacy depends on local activist collaboration. For relationship based advocacy to succeed, constituents must identify the other coalition members of their district, grow their member teams and then collaborate on regular legislative actions (legislative visits, rallies, local press and public outreach) with the guidance of the national and state single payer leadership.

Here are Dr. Skeen’s Operation Single Payer Essentials

Join your Operation Single Payer team

1) What District Are You In?
a) To look up your district you need your full 9 digit zip code. If you don’t know it, go here- Lookup 9 Digit Zip Code.
b) Look up your state assembly and state senate district here- assembly.ca.gov.
c) Look up your congressional district here- congressional district

2) Find your Operation Single Payer district team below and join the team’s Facebook page.

Assembly District Network
State Senate District Network
Congressional District Network

Important Links

California Single Payer Legislative Report Card 2009-2010

SB810 VOTE TRACKER
(Click on votes and coauthors at the bottom of the spreadsheet)

FINANCIAL INFORMATION ON LEGISLATORS / FIND YOUR DISTRICTS
votesmart.org

INFORMATION ON FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO YOUR LEGISLATORS
opensecrets.org

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
house.gov

U.S SENATE
senate.gov

CALIFORNIA STATE GOVERNMENT
california.gov (select government links)

INFORMATION ON FEDERAL LEGISLATION / BILL TRACKING
thomas.gov

INFORMATION ON STATE LEGISLATION / BILL TRACKING
legislature.ca.gov