Wait — you mean California voters have to weigh in on the obscure question of appropriate staffing levels at dialysis clinics — again? Didn’t we just do this? We did.
Sacramento – Two Bay Area News Group outlets, the San Jose Mercury News and East Bay Times, urged voters to reject Prop 29 in a recent editorial. Noting that dialysis treatment is a matter of life and death, they said Prop 29 “would make it harder for patients to receive critical care.”
Proposition 29 is the worst kind of abuse of California’s election system. For the third time in five years, leaders of a large labor union are asking voters to approve
California voters keep beating back unfair, unequal health-care pay measures that arbitrarily attempt to rip off the public and make dialysis harder to find, time and time again at the ballot box.
A coalition representing dialysis patients, doctors, nurses, social justice advocates and dialysis providers today condemned SEIU-UHW for targeting dialysis patients with yet another dangerous ballot measure. The group vowed to defeat it at the ballot in November. This is the third ballot measure in as many elections bankrolled by UHW and is nearly identical to Proposition 23, which voters rejected by more than 20 points in November 2020.
California voters are beginning to feel trapped in the electoral version of Groundhog Day. For the third straight election cycle, they are being asked to make complex decisions about kidney dialysis.
A coalition representing dialysis patients, doctors and dialysis providers today condemned the new ballot measure filed by the SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West (UHW) union, calling it a carbon copy of Prop 23, which 63% of voters rejected less than a year ago. This new measure, predictably, targets dialysis care and is aimed for the November 2022 California statewide ballot.
For the second time in as many elections, California voters are caught in the middle of a fight between private dialysis companies and a union with a history of taking its battles to the ballot.
No on 29: Stop Yet Another Dangerous Dialysis Proposition, sponsored by patients, doctors, nurses and dialysis providers. Committee major funding from DaVita, Fresenius Medical Care, and U.S. Renal Care.
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