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The Truth
Last May, Single Payer Action - along with a group of doctors and nurses - confronted Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) at a public hearing of the insurance industry-controlled Senate Finance Committee.
Baucus had scheduled 42 people to testify over three days of hearings.
Not one favored single payer.
Single Payer Action demanded - allow one person to testify on behalf of single payer.
Baucus refused.
Instead, Baucus ordered the arrest of 13 doctors, nurses, and other single payer activists.
Ever since Single Payer Action has been confronting members of Congress - agitating, and pressuring the system at all levels to do the right thing.
To adopt single payer national health insurance.
What Dr. Marcia Angell - former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine - calls the only health care system that will both control costs and cover everyone.
Fast forward ten months.
And what do we find?
The House Democrats - and most shamelessly 87 "progressive Democrats" who are co-sponsors of the single payer legislation in the House - are now lining up behind the pro-insurance industry Baucus-backed Senate bill.
A Senate bill those "progressive Democrats" vowed never to support.
A bill that - as Dr. Angell told Bill Moyers last week - cements the private insurance in place as "the lynchpin of health care reform."
Single Payer NOW
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