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A crack in the Senate's wall of silence on single payer

Submitted by gob on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 9:57am
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Department of The Happy Dance
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In Sickness and In Health
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single payer
Ted Kennedy
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Healthcare-NOW!
Margaret Flowers

My local single-payer activist sends some happy news: Dr. Margaret Flowers of PNHP has been invited by Sen. Kennedy's office to testify at the Senate Hearing on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) on Thursday, June 11 at 3:00.

So, as she says, we can update the latest Healthcare-NOW! action alert: contact Sen. Kennedy's office (Phone: 202-224-4543 - Fax: 202-224-2417) and let them know we are glad to hear Dr. Margaret Flowers has been invited to testify on behalf of national single-payer healthcare reform and that we expect single-payer advocates to continue to have a seat at the table in meetings and senate hearings on health care reform.

I would have selected "Department of the Cautiously Optimistic Dance" if we had that category. We have advanced one step: they can no longer pretend we have no right to a voice. But a voice is not a vote. We have to keep the pressure on. The smell of burning hair is everywhere.

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Submitted by Andre on

the funny thing about calling Kennedy's office, at least for me, living in Massachusetts, is that in two or three days after calling I'll get a letter from him asking for money. Well, money is a little tight right now, but maybe if he gives me some of what I want in health care reform, I'll see what I can do. Better start saving my pennies?

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Submitted by lambert on

1. And thanked them for inviting Dr. Margaret Flowers, and no longer shutting out the single payer advocates...

2. Especially given President Obama's support for single payer, as late as 2003, as shown by the YouTube's circulating, and ...

3. Did you know that President Obama actually used the single payer slogan, "Everybody in, nobody out" back in 2003? I thought that was interesting... ;-)

"Yes, I heard that," said the young staffer. Onward!