Having initially excluded all advocates for single payer national healthcare from the White House Summit on Healthcare Reform, and after protest from activists, the Obama administration reconsidered and invited Rep John Conyers, author of HR 676 the single payer bill pending in Congress, and also a representative of Physicians for a National Health Care Program, to the summit attended by over 120 people Thursday.
Dr. Quentin Young, the founder and National Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program, explores Obama's views on single payer and the battle for healthcare reform.
Democracy Now was on this issue
http://www.democracynow.org/20….._on_health
s Obama Hosts Summit on Healthcare, Marginalized Advocates Ask Why Single Payer Is Ignored
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President Obama hosted a White House summit Thursday on reforming healthcare. While President Obama said every idea must be considered, the idea of creating a single-payer national health insurance program appears to have already been rejected. We speak to Harper’s senior editor Luke Mitchell, author of the article “Sick in the Head: Why America Won’t Get the Health-Care System It Needs.” [includes rush transcript]
HAVE YOU READ THIS?
Sick in the head:
Why America won’t get the health-care system it needs
MEDIA BLACK OUT OF SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3733
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/02/0082380
By Leen on March 8th, 2009 at 4:56 pm