[HCCN] Jerry Call arrested in Baucus HC hearing

[Dexter Bellows]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/12/730596/-BREAKING:-5-More-RNs,-MDs-Arrested-at-Baucus-Finance-Cmte.-in-Florence-Nightingale-Protest

The protests, before a sea of reporters and cameras marked a  
continuing escalation of voices of protest --  last week eight were  
arrested -- in an ongoing spectacle in which the committee has bent  
over backwards to accommodate the insurers, the drug companies, the  
coalitions representing America's largest corporate interests, even  
the rightwing Heritage Foundation and conservative think tanks. All  
while excluding the doctors and nurses who favor single payer and have  
the most direct, hands on experience with our failed insurance based  
healthcare system.

Noting the shut out, Call said to the committee, "60 percent of the  
chairs at the table should be for single payer advocates because 60  
percent of the people want single payer" reform.

That's a system in which choice of doctor and other providers is  
guaranteed, with comprehensive benefits, real cost controls, and an  
end to insurance industry denials of care.
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