On May 5, 2009, eight activists were arrested at a health care hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, in the Dirksen Office Building, Room 106. As soon as the Committee Chair, Sen. Max Baucus (D-...
On May 5, 2009, eight activists were arrested at a health care hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, in the Dirksen Office Building, Room 106. As soon as the Committee Chair, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), opened the proceedings, the activists began in turns to stand and to make comments, like: "Why isnt a single payer at the table?" They were immediately "escorted" out of the room by the Capitol Hill police and placed under arrest. The demonstrators' press release underscored "how 22,000 people die in the U.S. every year due to a lack of health insurance." This is seven times the number of victims that perished in the 9/11 tragedy. Dr. Margaret Flowers, one of the eight arrested, added in the press release: "Health insurance administrators are practicing medicine without a license. The result is the suffering and death of thousands of patients for the sake of private profit. The private insurance industry has a solid grip on patients, providers and legislators. It is time to stand up and declare that health care is a human right." The activists are supporting HR 676 and S 703. For background and any updates, see: http://www.healthcare-now.org and http://singlepayeraction.org and http://md.pnhp.org and http://www.prosperityagenda.us/ and http://freshaircleanpolitics.net.
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And this still hasn't stopped them from giving to other countries and neglecting their own. They borrow money so they can give it to other countries. Doesn't make sense to me at all.
Are you calling the insurance executives the experts? If you are, we have first-hand experience of their expertise on doing whatever they can to get out of paying for necessary care while we pay high premiums that go higher every time we turn around. There main concern is not that a person gets the best of care but that they get the best profit. Remember, they are a business.
Your right Silberdachs, we received big time run around from our insurance company. They want to receive their premium payments but they sure don't want to pay and will find anyway they can to get out of it. No tear in my eye for them.
Our Government can stop giving our tax money to terrorist countries and use the money to help our own needy people. If they did that, nothing would have to come out of your pocket book that isn't already coming out. Big Businesses get their tax breaks and guess who is forced to pay for their FINE dining and FINE hotels, the tax payer. So our taxes feed the rich. He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want (Proverbs 22:16).
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We should have Baucus arrested for be a traitor.
There was no need to cuff those courageous citizens.
the bill of rights are entitlements, right? we shouldn't be GIVEN free speech or press by the government, right?