Reply #164: And Conyers backed down when asked by Clinton in the 90's... [View All]

[slipslidingaway]

playing politics has not helped the people, we need more people to stand up to the for profit companies ...... not play politics.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/slipslidingaway/98

"...As a matter of fact, the single-payer concept is one of the oldest serious major notions that has been around. That is to say, for those of us who were here when the President was Bill Clinton and he assigned his wife the task of taking on the reform of health care, we were summoned, we who were supporting single-payer, were summoned to the White House collectively.

I remember very well that Jerry Nadler of New York was there, a distinguished member of the Judiciary Committee. And what happened was that we were urged to step back from our initiative which had been going on for years before the Clintons assumed their responsibilities on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and after some brief discussion, we agreed that that was the appropriate thing to do. We did it. We did step back..."