Getting single-payer in the room
The idea of expanding Medicare to cover everyone is apparently so scary that the Senate Finance Committee is afraid to even let it be DISCUSSED at round tables on health care reform.
Alerted by an email from the good folks at Physicians for a National Health Plan, I just called Senator Schumer to urge him to invite a single payer advocate to participate in the upcoming May 5 and May 14 Senate Finance Committee roundtable discussions on healthcare reform scheduled to take place in Washington, D.C.
Dear Senator Schumer,
A majority of Americans know that a Medicare-like program available to all and a vastly reduced role for insurance companies is the only way to control costs and provide decent care to all Americans. Allowing the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies to control the debate* is simply shameful. Please commit to including proponents of single-payer universal health care fully in the May 5 and 14 roundtables and in ALL deliberations about health care reform.
Please act with courage and honesty on behalf of your constituents, not corporate interests.Thank you.
*Insurance companies contributed $46 million in political contributions in 2008; pharmaceuticals a mere $28 million. PNHP’s income (as reported on 2007 990)? $153,000. Not my definition of a fair fight.
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Uploaded on September 24, 2008
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