05/13/09

The people are thwarted

Congress is thwarting its responsibility to represent the American people with regard to health care and other issues. In this video it is crystal clear that the people, including health professionals prefer a single payer health care where the insurance company is not the middle man. Democratic Senator Max Baucus has been captured by the insurance companies and not even one single-payer advocate is allowed to testify their opinion before his committee unless they do it via civil disobedience. Insurance companies do not make anyone healthier. What they make is money.

From Amy Goodman’s Democracy now web site:
Advocates of single-payer universal healthcare—the system favored by most Americans—continue to protest their exclusion from discussions on healthcare reform. On Tuesday, five doctors, nurses and single-payer advocates were arrested at a Senate Finance Committee hearing, bringing the total number of arrests in less than a week to thirteen…