Single-payer healthcare protesters disrupt Senate hearing; Chairman calls for more police
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Single-payer healthcare protesters disrupt Senate hearing; Chairman calls for more police
Want single payer universal healthcare? Don’t try to bring it up in the Senate.
Health care activists disrupted a Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday, standing up one after the other as Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) tried to restore order.
As soon as police escorted one protester out of the room, another would stand up, criticizing the committee for convening a panel of 15 experts and excluding witnesses who support creating a Medicare system for all Americans. About eight were led out of the hearing.
Baucus’ response? “We need more police.”
A video of the protest appears below.
According to Politico, the protest was held by Healthcare Now, Physicians for a National Health Program and Single Payer Action, who back a single-payer, government health care system.
The health insurance lobby has signed onto healthcare reform, seeing it as more or less inevitable, but are pushing for what’s called a “universal mandate” which would require everyone to purchase private insurance. Universal single-payer healthcare seems unlikely, though Congress could create a public entity to compete with private health insurance plans and would likely subsidize health insurance for those who can’t afford it.
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