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Weiner: Single payer "is a better plan and now it's center stage"

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Fri, 07/31/2009 - 10:04pm — lambert

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Washington, DC - Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), Chairman of the Energy & Commerce Committee announced today that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pledged to give Single-Payer an up or down vote when healthcare reform is considered before year’s end.

Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Co-Chair of the Middle Class Caucus and member of the Energy & Commerce Committee who led the effort with Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA); Rep. Elliot Engel (D-NY); Rep. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL); Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL); and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT), released the following statement:

“Single-payer is a better plan and now it is on center stage. Americans have a clear choice. Their Member of Congress will have a simpler, less expensive and smarter bill to choose. I am thrilled that the Speaker is giving us that choice.”

 Yay!

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BDBlue's picture

No Vote = Primary or 3rd Party Challenger

By BDBlue on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 10:55pm

That should be the goal. We will now have a target list for 2010.

Man, just think how far we might be by now if so many "progressive" "leaders" hadn't been telling us all to sit down and shut the fuck up. Sad.

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt

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Damon's picture

Yep

By Damon on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 11:34pm

And, it shouldn't just be some internal goal of the movement; it should be made a formal and visible promise (read: threat) to those obstructing fence-sitters.

But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...

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Wel, I'm sure all the "this was really the plan all along" ...

By lambert on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 11:47pm

... posts are being discussed on TownHouse even as we speak.

But I think TownHouser* Bowers let the cat out of the bag with his "wait 10-15 years, and then for sure we'll get it" post today. That's really not the kind of post you write at 11:00AM Friday when single payer advocates win a major victory at 5:00PM the same day.

NOTE * You know -- like the Wagnerian opera?

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

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It's so décreative-classé

By vastleft on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 12:07am

The wrong kind of people being right (again). Couldn't we all just wait the 10-15 years and not raise a fuss?

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