Act Now! Assembly and Senate Budget Committees Reject Governor's Budget Proposal The Assembly and Senate Budget Committees have voted to reject the Governor’s budget proposal! However, each house has introduced different Prop 56 spending proposals that will need to be reconciled in the Legislative Budget Conference Committee. June 1, 2017 Advocacy, Health Care Reform, Medi Cal Medi-Cal, Senate Budget Committee, Tobacco tax 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMA Urges Legislature to Adopt State Budget that Improves Access to Care for Medi-Cal Patients Tobacco tax revenues must be invested as voters legally required, to improve health care access for 14.3 million California patients. May 11, 2017 Advocacy, CMA, Medi Cal Budget, CMA, Medi-Cal, Prop 56, Tobacco Tax 0 0 Comment Read More »
Coalition Files Initiative to Raise State’s Tobacco Tax Save Lives California—a broad coalition of physicians, patients, taxpayers and health care workers—has filed an initiative with the Attorney General’s office that would increase California’s tax on cigarettes by $2 per pack. The San Francisco Medical Society and the California Medical Association are part of this coalition. October 13, 2015 Advocacy, CMA Save Lives California, tobacco tax, Tobacco Tax Act of 2016 0 0 Comment Read More »
SFMS Champions Tobacco Regulation at August Lobby Day On August 26, 2015, three SFMS physician members joined over a hundred health care workers, and patient advocates at a daylong rally at the Capitol in Sacramento in support of the six tobacco control bills heard during the Special Extraordinary Session on Healthcare 2015 convened by Governor Brown. September 2, 2015 Advocacy, SFMS Member John Maa, Renee Fogelberg, Laura Davies, Save Lives California, SFMS advocacy, tobacco, tobacco tax 0 0 Comment Read More »
Prop 29: Good vs. Evil Did you pay any taxes last year? If so, and even if you don’t smoke tobacco, some of your money went to pay for the costs of tobacco-related disease—and helped put money into tobacco industry coffers as well. If you don’t like that deal, Proposition 29 won’t fix it, but it will help. June 4, 2012 Advocacy, Public Health CCRA, tobacco tax, California Cancer Research Act, Prop 29 0 0 Comment Read More »
