As a 4th year medical student, this was a great week, I observed my first CABG surgery and am getting better at admitting Cardiology consult patients from the Emergency Department. But even better, because I am tired of AHIP and PHARMA preventing me from delivering healthcare to my local community, PNHP brought Single Payer to the table.
Many of us here at DailyKos phoned and emailed for single payer to be on the table.
Thank you to nyceve and DrSteveB among others who make the time to keep us informed and give us a chance to be organized. See fun video of those we got in to speak for us on single payer below the fold.
For the first time in this presidential administration, physicians and a nurse testified to the House of Representatives and one physician testified to the Senate for our right to single payer healthcare.
This was discussed on the excellent PNHP blog at House HELP Committee hearing on single payer
The video is near the top of the page when you click on Archived Webcast Press on Archived Webcast after you click on this
At last health care providers could bring single payer to the table.
Also Rep Hare at 1:12:00 and Rep Kucinich were excellent. To see the coorporate profits promoting/sponsored physician being schooled on single payer by Rep Kucinich see 1:21:35 onwards. It is so rare that our representatives speak truth to power.
Dr Flowers who was arrested trying to defend single payer in the Senate was finally allowed to speak in the Senate at
Dr Flowers starts at 40:24 to 44:00
In my clerkship, we hear the paid Pharma representatives warning us of disaster if ever single payer were enacted. What a relief to find that at least our government listened to some truth while I got through my week caring for patients despite endless coorporate profits prioritizing propaganda.
Thank you to all DKos members who demand that single payer be on the table.
Hurray for PNHP, CNA and NNOC. We are in this fight for the long term.
Everybody in. Nobody out.
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