When a Senate Finance Committee Hearing on health care coverage was held in Washington last week not one single payer advocate was invited to testify. But that did not stop them from attending the hearing and voicing their anger that the single payer model has been shut out of the debate. Eight single payer activists, including a number of doctors, were arrested after speaking out before the committee hearing got underway.

Evidently agitated at first, the committee chair, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont) said that single payer health care is, "a view which many have and which I respect. The point of this and other hearings is to determine the best option." Perhaps next time they'll have a seat at the table.

The video is courtesy of Physicians for a National Health Program.