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Supporters of a stalled single-payer healthcare bill returned to the Capitol in Sacramentoon Monday to express their anger that Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) shelved the measure more thana week ago. <\/p>\n
Backers of the bill, SB 562, disrupted a separate hearing on the Assemblyfloor by unfurling a banner from the gallerybefore being escorted out. They also attended a hearing of the Assembly Rules Committee, the panel in whichRendonheld back the bill, holding up signs on which they'd written personal healthcare stories. And asmall contingentstaged a \"sit-in\" near Rendon's office, chanting \"SB 562.\" <\/p>\n
Rendoncalled the bill \"woefully incomplete\" and has shown no appetite to advance the bill, but Pilar Schiavo, an organizer with Healthy California, an advocacy group backing the measure, said supporters plan to keep up the pressure. <\/p>\n
\"We continue to build. There is incredible grassroots movement around this,\" Schiavosaid, adding of the enthusiasm around single-payer, \"it's too late to put it back in the box.\" <\/p>\n
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