Single Payer Protest May 5th at Senate Finance Committee

Doctors and other advocates of truly universal healthcare for all (the same health care for "the people living in the park, and the people living on Park Avenue") were arrested on Tuesday, May 5th, for demanding that the Single-Payer option have a seat at the table of the "No We Can't" administration's Senate Finance Committee health care reform hearing. There were 15 seats at the table secured solely for lobbyists seeking to protect and preserve a really sick Profit-Care system, being the corporate government's carefully selected expert "Health Care Reform" panel... not even one expert allowed at that table to represent We, The People's choice... Single-Payer.


As, one by one, more people continued to stand in protest, after each who stood was taken away by police, the Chairman, Democrat Max Baucus, smirked and callously joked, "We need more police!" [much laughter from the Senators and the "expert" corporate lobbyists there, who own them] Republican Chuck Grassley nervously whispered a reminder to Baucus, that they were being televised. So, after the 8 protestors had been cuffed and removed (silenced... and disappeared), the then TV camera conscious Baucus, as only a BIG "D" Democrat can, disingenuously declared his deep, deep, deepest respect for the opinions of the people he had just had arrested for their opinions... opinions the Democrat Baucus so personally deeply respects that he believes they shouldn't be considered when considering solutions.

 

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