Doctors protest exclusion of single-payer at Senate Finance Committee

WASHINGTON Doctors and other advocates of a national single-payer health system also known as an improved Medicare for All directly confronted senators at a Senate Finance Committee roundtable on health reform today.

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[729zoom]

I am so proud of all these people who spoke out. True Americans. Baucus and his insurance buddies should be ashamed.

[urbanverificationist]

Single payer advocates represent the largest single constituency for healthcare reform in the United States.

The Senate finance commitee represents a bunch of political whores and their corporate clients.

[tweed187187]

you see how they just ilegally took thats mans right to freedom of speech away?wake the hell up you demacraps!

[Sonny5633]

Senator Buckus took $667,000 campaign donation from the insurance companies in his last election. I wonder how he is going to vote on public health plan?

[Sonny5633]

Senator Buckus took $667,000 campaign donation from the insurance companies in his last election. I wonder how he is going to vote on public health plan?

[42ndStreetMatthew]

Look at these idiots in the crowd laughing like this is a joke. Disgusting.

[SonofCimmeria]

I've had problems with the for-profit health industry too. They act like you're lying to them when you have to get a procedure that's expensive, and they will grill you like a prosecutor in the hopes that you'll slip something out and suddenly *bam* they don't have to cover it. It makes me sick! If they don't pass a public option I will personally protest at our nation's capital and bar the lobbyists from ever working there again!

[hrosemd]

Come on.

You're kidding right?

Anything having to do with the Federal Government is politicized by definition. When you control the money and the bureaucrats, you control everything.

Google "Bush ban on morning-after pill" for recent specific example.

[CougarsRock]

How do you politicize health care?

Are government does a pretty good job providing police, fire and roads.

Single payer is about funding health care, not providing it.

[CougarsRock]

I was insured a couple years ago and needed knee surgery. My insurance carrier denied coverage as a pre-existing condition costing me more than $15,000 out of pocket despite the fact I'd never seen a doctor and had been continuously insured for over a decade.

For-profit insurance sucks. They make money denying claims and good luck fighting their legal department.

Single Payor NOW!

[truce57]

Physicians like me understand the importance of keeping corporate interests out of healthcare decisions. 

If you have EVER had to fight your insurance company for the simplest of treatments, of you have EVER been frustrated by the high cost of your insurance plan or the level of out-of-pocket expenses for treatment or prescription drugs, then you WILL benefit from single-payer healthcare. Any government-run plan would have much more transparency than corporate profiteers currently allow.

[mylesh2000]

You say:

"Everyone knows that politicians are corrupt, and are subject to manipulation, but yet these simpletons want to put them in charge of something actually important, like the relationship between you and your doctor."

Corproate America is in charge of that relationship, asshat, and that is why over thousands of people die every year in this country.