Single-payer advocates disrupt Senate Finance Committee.

The tradition of brave and proud nurse activism for guaranteed healthcare on the single-payer model continued today thanks to Janice Webb, RN, and her nurse intervention at the convention of the health insurance industry in San Diego, AHIP. They're the lobbyists for the insurance giants who make money by denying care to the very patients that Janice cares for at UC-San Diego Medical Center.

As nurses last month shook up the Senate Finance Committee, which led to an important meeting with Senate power broker Max Baucus' office this week, Nurse Webb took her protest to directly challenge those who are at the main cog in our broken and dysfunctional health care system.

With thousands of well-paid insurance executives around her waiting to hear from Jeb Bush and Howard Dean, Janice marched up to the stage at the San Diego Convention, where the moderator was droning on about how hard AHIP is working to find healtcare solutions -- meaning legislation that will protect their position at the center of power over our health and the profits they make from the pain and suffering of patients.

Taking the mike, Janice held up a copy of an $11 billion dollar check, Janice then declared, to a mix of cheers and boos, "Nurses have the solution. You all need to get out of healthcare. We took up a collection and want to present this check to you to go away so we can finally institute a humane single-payer system for this nation...everybody in, nobody out!"

Of course it did not last long. Burly security men rushed the stage, grabbed Janice and a companion, and hustled them off. Hysterical AHIP security guards angrily denounced Janice, and demanded her arrest.

Instead, the police officers smiled, asked Janice if she had any warrants out, and started to describe the healthcare cutbacks they're facing due to SDPD's trouble with affording ever-rising insurance premiums, and escorted her outside where she was given a raucous welcome from a crowd of nurses, teachers, patients, doctors, and progressive democrats....

Janice was followed by Jeffrey Gordon, a Physicians for a National Health Program member, who brought along a half-dozen of his patients who have been bankrupted or sickened by their insurance companies....

Gordon told the crowd, "As I was driving here I knew I was in the right place because there's a whole flock of corporate jets lined up right over there. We're here to tell AHIP that it's time to get rid of their jets." He added, "The power of those people across the streets keep the people in Washington from talking about the real problems in healthcare in this nation. And if you don't make the right diagnosis there is not cure--which is to get rid of the health insurance industry."

When you cite Faux News as a source, or offer up articles funded by health insurance lobbyists, they deserved to be exposed for the right wing propaganda they are.

Thanks for the laugh of the day.

I forgot liberals get from reliable sources like Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews.

Chris Matthews, not so much. Rachel Maddow, yes.

The fact is, everything we may hear on MSNBC can be independently verified and backed up by other unbiased news sources! The same cannot be said for the joke that is Faux News. Your response does not change the fact that you have provided only conservative sources to back up your conservative opinions.

All you need to know.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/r...ews/cable-news

Maddow is a joke just look at her ratings. She couldn't even hack it on Air America you knwo the group that scammed money from charities. Real ethical people if only they were tax cheats they could work for Obama.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=45730

Oh wow, yet another link to a right-wing propaganda site! A former chairman is arrested for a crime and right-wingers are hell bent to use it to try to tarnish an entire network? What else is new? Certainly has nothing to do with Rachel. I'll take Rachel Maddow, Rhodes scholar, PhD from Oxford University, joke to conservatives, over any of the wingnuts at Faux News anyday. Well, I have nothing against Shep Smith. He's the only sane one there. And now.....back on-topic.

California, which died before vote because the legislature know just by looking at it that it wasn't affordable.

Abe also said this, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"

The California single payer bill passed both houses of the legislature TWICE.
It was vetoed by the governor.

2006 - http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/3751/
2008 - http://www.californiaprogressreport....ath_gover.html

I don't care what you call it; it won't make things better here.