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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[crowgirlcrow]

We are owned by the insurance industry. God help us.

[gloryoski]

GO!!!!!! Thank you!!!!

[BigAndTall666]

Move to Canada or Scandinavia!

[xetlive]

This guy is an Insurance Lobbyist dream. Hes received over 3 million dollars from them.

Your crappy bill you offered up today is PATHETIC Max! Your a sellout. Your bill has become a joke. How much are the lobbyist contributing to your campaign for you to screw the US citizens. Anti-American is what you are.

Your a tool Max, not a man.

[rwcbanzai]

Single Payer or die broke!

[barbarajaneoneal]

You corporate owned & paid citizens rest easy that your criminal CEO-CFO will win this tiff. The "patient choice" between eating or healthcare provides lucrative insurance & HMO criminals lavish bonuses until the uSA breaks apart, now far underway. Canadians & Europeans suffer longer healthier lives already, but we have house-servant corporate puppets of the Dem-GOP-PNAC Crime Family endowing CEO & CFO criminals who own the lucrative crimnal system of DOA-USA. Congrats.

[Susieshepherd]

...I used to work @ the Hepatology Dept. @ University Hospital in Denver- pateints w/ Medicare or Medicaid who needed a transplant were placed on the waiting list almost immediately as they were automatically approved. Patients with "private" insurance were quite often denied, patients w/ hmo's or ppo's were almost always denied (even though they had paid their premiums & needed transplants to live)

[Susieshepherd]

Thank you Adam!! The opposition to this is stating that we will be treated the same way we are @ the Post Office (seriously cheap & affordable rates) or @ the IRS (whole system needs to be revamped & if they have a problem with the IRS they should start working for IRS reform). Expansion of Medicare (single payer) is different...

[carlyclaire15]

thats my cousin adam. :]

im proud of him.

[btxusa]

The laughter occurred when he quipped "Get more police" or something like that. For us who are serious about being represented in the discussion, such levity seemed inappropriate. I reached Baucus office late in the day because the line stayed busy earlier. (You can call Sen. Baucus' office in Washington and urge him to extend the invitations at 202-224-2651.)

[collette1972]

I wasn't aware of Baucus behavior when I contacted his office to complain about the single payer exclusion from the hearing.

I also know we need to repeal the Hill Burton Act of 1947.

[btxusa]

I watched the live hearing via C-Span. Thank you to these people who spoke for all of us. Senator Baucus was unforgivably rude when he LAUGHED and JOKED about needing more police! Infuriating. I will remember this at election time!