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Single Payer Advocates Crash Wyden Meeting

Mon, 05/25/2009 - 9:13pm — DCblogger

Single Payer Action

About ten minutes into the event Rick Staggenborg MD, of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), asked Senator Wyden if he would sit down with single payer advocates.

Wyden remains steadfastly opposed to single payer, but said he would sit down with the single payer advocates.

But Senator Wyden did nothing to ensure that single payer advocates were represented in recent Senate Finance Committee hearings.

Just keep showing up, whether or not you're invited.

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Great quote from the meeting

By lambert on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 9:41pm

Heh:

“A majority of the people who attended the Wyden town hall meeting support single payer and many thanked us for our silent protest,” said Kauffman. “Wyden parroted the insurance industry line that we need a ‘uniquely American’ approach to healthcare. At that point a member of the audience said — ‘I think we already have a uniquely American system. It doesn’t work.’”

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"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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hmmm...

By hipparchia on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 10:50pm

i wonder if we could get anywhere by pointing out that the proposed uniquely american system looks suspiciously like the mexican system. maybe copying the canadians would look less scary than copying the mexicans.

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Quick - notify Lou Dobbs.

By Randall Kohn on Mon, 05/25/2009 - 11:31pm

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JFK has been shot, we miss him a lot
He always knew what to do
-- Philly Cream

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Uniquely American, indeed

By Davidson on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 1:09am

Failure: something we, Americans, are "accustomed" to.

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