Sanders to Push for Single-Payer Vote in Senate- That bill will lose, how much support will it get?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Sanders to Push for Single-Payer Vote in Senate

by Daniel Barlow

MONTPELIER - U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders will likely make history this year when - for the first time ever - he brings a bill creating a national single-payer health care system to the floor of the Senate for a vote.

As a compromise on a public-option plan that would allow states to opt out gains steam in the U.S. Senate, Sanders, a Vermont independent, continues to focus his attention on a single-payer bill, although he acknowledges that there are not enough votes to pass it.

"That bill will lose," Sanders said Wednesday morning during a telephone interview. "The question, however, will be how much support it will get."

Introduced in the early spring, Sanders' American Health Security Act of 2009 would eliminate the role of private insurance companies in health care and create a public fund that would insure all residents of the United States.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/29-9

[Marr]

1. Isn't it galling how the best option is just completely dismissed by

our House of Lords? I suspect the support for this bill will be next to non-existent.

[mdmc]

3. awful

[noiretextatique]

2. thank you senator sanders

:applause:

[G_j]

4. Thank You Bernie!

:yourock:

[madrchsod]

5. i`m thinking....0,nil,nada,.....

[corpseratemedia]

6. thanks for being ethical Sen. Sanders

too bad we don't have a direct democracy, his bill could possibly pass.

[Oregone]

8. Highly doubt it

Guess it depends on how flashy the Mormons commercials are. :)

Stupidity, on a national level, is synergistic

[Oregone]

7. It still accomplishes something

It outs the faux Democrats who say they would support it if it was viable (of course, it never makes it out of committee normally, so its easy to say). Well, now stand up and get your name on record. So we get to see who is all talk when they actually get a crack at it.