This Tuesday, May 12, the Senate Finance Subcommittee is holding its final roundtable on healthcare reform. Unfortunately, they have yet to include a single payer advocate on the panel.
However, there is some good news: members of Single-Payer New York met with Sen. Charles Schumer (NY), Senate Finance Committee member, on Friday. He agreed to ask Chairman Baucus to include a single-payer expert--if we can get another Senator on the committee to join him. So let's do it, we need to call, email and fax the senators on the committee until they include a Single Payer advocate.
The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee has issued a request to include Roseann Demoro, Executive Director of CNA/NNOC and longtime leader in the single-payer movement. PNHP has formally submitted the names of two outstanding physicians, Drs. Marcia Angell and Steffie Woolhandler, to testify as expert witnesses. Let's get at least one of these single payer advocates a seat at the table.
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