Testimony To California Assembly Select Committee On Gas Pricing And Supply Committee August 11, 2022

The family members of patients killed by devastating acts of medical negligence, and a woman who survived her medical nightmare but lost all of her limbs, told their stories of how the Medical Board of California failed to protect their families and did not hold the doctors who hurt them accountable. The press conference on February 24th previewed patients’ testimony before legislative hearings investigating reform of the Medical Board of California. 

Why does West LA's Assembly Member Richard Bloom not want Nancy to have a place to recycle? 75-year-old West LA resident Nancy Hannickel  has thousands of cans in her back yard because she has no place to redeem them. She wants you to oppose Bloom's AB 1454, which allows more grocery stores out of their obligation to take back empty bottles and cans and redeem the CRV deposit.

http://consumerwatchdog.org/recycling — Nancy's backyard is full of recyclables because there is no place nearby to provide redemption at the full deposit value that was paid.

Why are Californians giving away over half a billion dollars a year in uncollected deposits on cans and bottles?

The Medical Board of California is charged with protecting the public from dangerous doctors, but it is failing that consumer protection mission. Doctors have the majority of seats on the Board, with 8, while the public has only 7 (and two of those are vacant). With doctors in charge, the Medical Board lets negligent doctors continue to practice and harm Californians with no accountability. Too often, patient complaints about physician negligence are dismissed without the patient ever even being interviewed, and with no consequences for the doctors who cause harm.

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It's time to adjust a compensation cap set on injured patients in 1975, by politicians, that has never been updated.

California is the most progressive state in the country but has the most regressive medical negligence laws. Support the 2020 ballot measure by voting YES in 2020.

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Speakers at the Initiative Launch included:

It was the kind of accident that could happen to any child at anytime.

Like many two year olds, Steven Olsen loved climbing, running and playing. Steven was also a quick thinker like his dad, Scott, who developed software for automotive repair. His parents called Steven “wild thing” because he was very active, playful and imaginative.  For his second birthday, they gave him a child’s workbench where he could play at fixing things.