“Examining the Single Payer Health Care Option” House hearing tomorrow....make sure CSPAN knows

[marmar]

http://www.healthcare-now.org/2009/06/watch-the-single-payer-hearing-in-house-wed-june-10/


Watch the Single-Payer Hearing in House, Wed. June 10
June 9, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!


The Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee of the House Education & Labor Committee will hold a hearing titled “Examining the Single Payer Health Care Option” this Wednesday, June 10th at 10:30 am in 2175 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.

For those of you who would like to attend in person and can make the trip to Washington, D.C., hearings are open to the public. Just make sure you get there early, so you get a seat.

You may be able to watch via webcast here: http://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/2009/06/examining-the-single-payer-hea.shtml

Contact C-SPAN and let them know you would like them to broadcast the hearing. C-SPAN’s Main Number is: [phone]

[Cleita]

1. Any idea of who will actually be allowed to participate? Or will it be

all the insurance companies, pharmaceuticals and the Heritage Foundation like on Senator Baucus's Finance committee. Will there be actual representatives from the single payer side of the debate, the representatives of the doctors, nurses and patients? Why do I feel this hearing won't be any more than a token white wash so they can say, they did it.

[marmar]

2. The early list:

Witnesses:

U.S. Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI)

Marcia Angell, M.D
Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

David Gratzer
Senior Fellow
Manhattan Institute

Geri Jenkins, R.N.
Co-President
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee
San Diego, CA

Walter Tsou, M.D., M.P.H.
National Board Advisor
Physicians for a National Health Program
Philadelphia, PA

Additional Witnesses TBA

[Cleita]

3. Oh great they are getting the true reps. I just hope they aren't

testifying to an empty House.

[sandnsea]

5. It won't matter

We Are Not Getting Sinle Payer Health Care. Never were, probably never will. The best we can get is a public option that will be adjusted over the years as they figure out the economics and how to let rich people have a doctor without having to observe the riff-raff.

[MrMickeysMom]

4. Thanks for posting the SPAN's number...

I'm hoping they'll broadcast it.