Pelosi Hears It Again

[Joanne98]

Last month, Nancy Pelosi told a group of reporters that on health care, “over and over again, we hear — single payer, single payer, single payer.”

“Well, it’s not going to be single payer,” Pelosi said, emphatically.

Well, yes, it is, Madame Speaker.

Sooner or later, it is going to be single payer.

And it better be sooner.

Because 60 Americans die every day from lack of health insurance.

And single payer is the only health care reform that will simultaneously cover everyone and control costs.

Yesterday, we were told that Nancy Pelosi would be speaking about her recent trip to China at the Brookings Instiution.

So we went over to Brookings, wanting to ask Pelosi about why she continues to keep single payer off the table.

It’s as if she’s working for the insurance corporations instead of for the American people.

But, lo and behold, we were kicked off the property, into the rain, and onto the sidewalk.

Nevertheless, as Pelosi exited her limo, we were able let her hear it one more time.

“Madame Speaker, put single payer back on the table.” (See video clip here.)
http://www.singlepayeraction.org/blog/?p=873

http://www.singlepayeraction.org/blog/?p=877

[Delphinus]

1. I think the 60 Americans die each day figure is low,

based upon what someone said to me earlier this week (they also pointed me in the right direction to a news article about it).

Let me see if I can find it - but the figure, back in 1997, was 100,000 per year!

[abq e streeter]

2. "as Pelosi exited her LIMO"-------'nuff said

[jgraz]

3. Nancy takes another piece of democracy "off the table"

How much longer are we going to put up with this corporatist drone?

[obliviously]

4. She seems to be a permanent fixture

I don't think anyone will budge her. The rest of the house has no voice she is a dictator of sorts.

[xchrom]

5. there is a whole set of dems -- they are neither conservative or progressive --

their whole reason for being isn't governing but not giving republicans a chance to call them names.