Single-payer hearing today, will resume at 12:30, link to GD thread

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5817233&mesg_id=5817233

http://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/2009/06/examining-the-single-payer-hea.shtml

Witnesses:

U.S. Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) »

Marcia Angell, M.D
Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

David Gratzer

Senior Fellow

Manhattan Institute

Geri Jenkins, R.N. »

Co-President

California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee

San Diego, CA

Walter Tsou, M.D., M.P.H.

National Board Advisor

Physicians for a National Health Program

Philadelphia, PA

Additional Witnesses TBA

[John Q. Citizen]

1. K&R for Single Payer!

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3. Thanks, Kucinich is up :) n/t

[avaistheone1]

2. I am glad the California Nurses Association is there. Anyone recognize

other names friendly to single payer?

U.S. Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) is a friend of course.

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4. Everyone except Dr. Gratzer. nt

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5. FYI - Dr. Marcia Angell was one of two people Conyers wanted

to bring to the WH Summit on HC, she was not allowed to attend.

Dr Fein was extended an invitation at the last minute, but not given any time to speak, his report is below.
http://www.pnhp.org/blog/2009/03/09/dr-oliver-fein-reports-on-the-white-house-health-summit/



http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/11/dr_quentin_young_obama_confidante_and

"...AMY GOODMAN: And finally, Dr. Young, because we just have a minute—


DR. QUENTIN YOUNG: OK.


AMY GOODMAN: This brouhaha over the last week with the White House healthcare summit, 120 people, there were going to be no single-payer advocates. Congressman Conyers asked to go. At first, he was told no. He directly asked President Obama at a Congressional Black Caucus hearing. He asked to bring you and Marcia Angell—


DR. QUENTIN YOUNG: Yes.


AMY GOODMAN: —former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. You weren’t allowed to go. Do you have President Obama’s ear anymore? You have been an ally of his for years, for decades.


DR. QUENTIN YOUNG: Well, it’s mixed. I think we’re friends, certainly. At this gala that you mentioned, which was embarrassing, he did send a very complimentary letter. And I appreciate that, but I’d much rather have him enact single payer, to tell the truth. And we did—it’s fair to say, after a good deal of protest, I think we were told there was a—phones rang off the hook. They did allow our national president, Dr. Oliver Fein, to attend with Dr. Conyers—Congressman Conyers. That’s fine, but we need many more people representative of the American people at large to get this thing through the Congress, and Baucus, notwithstanding, be overruled..."