from Floyd McDowell
“IMPORTANT BENEFITS OF THE DELAWARE HEALTH SECURITY ACT, SENATE BILL 120”
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by: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
(Photo: Robin Dude / flickr )
In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, “I am a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.”
The Senate Finance Committee’s hearings on health reform earlier this month did not include testimony from any advocate for single-payer insurance. Physicians for a National Health Program, which represents 16,000 doctors, asked the committee to invite me to testify, but it chose not to. If I had been invited, this is what I would have said: