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Why I Was Among Eight Health Care Advocates to Get Arrested in the Senate Yesterday

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Pay to Play Politics is Unacceptable for Health Care Reform

 

 

Yesterday morning, eight doctors, lawyers and other activists stood up for single payer health care.  We stood up during a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.  The hearing was only to hear from the insurance industry, pharmaceutical companies, HMO’s and business interests.  They did not want to hear about a real national health care plan.

 

I was one of the eight.

 

We stood up to the private health insurance industry, to the corporate power in Congress and demanded a single payer national health care plan where everybody is in and nobody is out.  We want a plan that ensures the peoples right to choose their own doctor, hospital and health care treatment. We want a plan that will control costs – something that cannot be done unless the insurance industry, HMO’s and pharmaceutical companies are challenged.

 

The Senate Finance Committee which has taken millions from the insurance industry, HMO’s, pharmaceutical industry – those that profit from health care in America only scheduled their donors to speak. It was pay to play on display in Washington, DC before the corrupt Senate Finance Committee.

 

We stood up and told the truth.  The Emperor Has No Clothes we said.  We were arrested and charged with “disruption of Congress” a euphemism for telling the truth in Congress.

 

You can see the C-SPAN and other video on our new website ProsperityAgenda.US.  You can see the news reports from The Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Politico, Democracy Now and National Public Radio which all carried stories about the protest. Prosperity Agenda is an economic justice project of the Campaign for Fresh Air and Clean Politics.  You can help us develop an economy for all, including a health care system for all, by participating – share your comments, ideas and strategies. Join our effort.

 

Chairman Baucus, invited his major donors to the table: the health insurance industry was there, so were the Chamber of Commerce, the right wing Heritage Foundation, the Business Roundtable, Blue Cross Blue Shield and corporate liberals who have sold out the people like Andy Stern, Ron Pollack and AARP.

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Kevin Zeese is co-chair of Come Home America, www.ComeHomeAmerica.US which seeks to end U.S. militarism and empire. He is also co-director of Its Our Economy, www.ItsOurEconomy.US which seeks to democratize the economy and give people greater (more...)
 
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