Media Blackout on Single-Payer Healthcare?

Front page of Phialdelphia Inquirer today:

Nurse's insurance nightmare makes her a single-payer advocate

I've got hundred's of patients stories told to me + personal family experiences why single payer needed.

Key congressman touts single-payer health coverage

Rep. John Conyers Jr. said yesterday that President Obama would not support single-payer universal health insurance now because he had too much on his plate - two wars and an economic crisis - and had to settle for the health-care reform he could get.
The Michigan Democrat, speaking at Thomas Jefferson University, said the president would push through a public-private system of health reform, keeping private insurance through employers, and expanding a Medicare-like system for the uninsured - "if he's lucky."...

...Conyers came to Philadelphia to rally support for his bill, which would create a single-payer system - essentially Medicare for all.
Under the bill, Americans would pay into a health-care trust fund, most likely through payroll taxes, and that fund would pay all hospitals, doctors, and other health-care providers for their services. Everything from ophthalmology to long-term care would be included. Private insurers would no longer be needed.
Conyers attended the health-care summit at the White House Thursday, although he was a last-minute invitee. "It was very heavy with corporate health-care interests - Big Pharma, insurance companies, the people who don't want single-payer," he said....

..."Why can't we start from the point of view that health care is an inherent constitutional right?" he asked yesterday.
"If it is a right, it shouldn't be based on employment, whether you have a job. So many people in American don't have jobs now, I don't need to tell you."...

...One retired physician told Conyers that "single-payer will never happen in my lifetime."
Conyers, 79, drew a huge laugh when he replied, "You may not get it in your lifetime, but I'll get it in mine."

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