Congressional Hearing to Consider Single-Payer Healthcare

[John Q. Citizen]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/9/740507/-Congressional-Hearing-to-Consider-Single-Payer-Healthcare

by National Nurses Movement

Tue Jun 09, 2009 at 12:51:45 PM PDT

The official silence on Capitol Hill on single payer -- at least in the House -- is ending.

Thanks to the ongoing pressure and dedication of single payer activists across the country, who the Washington Post noted this past weekend, "have spent months hounding Democratic lawmakers and organizing demonstrations, including one that resulted in 13 arrests at a Senate hearing last month," a Congressional committee will for the first time in the current proceedings on healthcare reform, hold a public hearing on single payer Wednesday.

The hearing, "Exploring the Single Payer Option," will be held on Wednesday, June 10 at 10:30 a.m. in Room 2175 in the Rayburn House Office Building by the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions.

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That's a subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee, which is chaired by Rep. George Miller, one of the most influential members of the House and one of 75 co-sponsors of the House single payer bill, HR 676.

Geri Jenkins, RN, a co-president of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, and Dr. Marcia Angell and Dr. Walter Tsou of Physicians for a National Health Program are among the expected witnesses.

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