[Peace-discuss] Administration arranges to fail

[C. G. Estabrook]

[The White House issued the following official statement: "Aw, shucks."]

	Senate Finance Committee Rejects Any Public Option
	by Quentin Young

The momentous decision to reject any public option by the Senate Finance 
Committee today underscores how completely private insurance companies dominate 
Congressional activity.  The author of the bill for the committee, Liz Fowler, 
is herself a former VP of WellPoint, the nation's largest private health 
insurer.  This highlights the importance of the single payer, Medicare for All 
alternative which, above all, eliminates the need for private insurance 
companies thereby saving the nation over $400 billion annually, enough to cover 
all 47 million uninsured.

Dr. Quentin Young is National Coordinator of Physicians for a National Health 
Program.  Physicians for a National Health Program is a research and educational 
organization of 17,000 doctors who support single-payer national health insurance.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/young290909.html