Why we need single-payer health care

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Run time: 06:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcI1bm8h9Yo   Posted on YouTube: March 13, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 03, 2009 By DU Member: dcsmart Views on DU: 434

 
i met Sister Mary Ellen Howard today. please see post below where i explain the scene.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=367x19752

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1. Thank you for both posts, Sister Mary Ellen Howard was great! nt

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2. u r welcome

i am glad you liked it. she really is inspiring.

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3. Yes, unfortunately single-payer was barely given a place at the

table.

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Dr. Quentin Young, Longtime Obama Confidante and Physician to MLK, Criticizes Admin’s Rejection of Single-Payer Healthcare

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/11/dr_quentin_young_obama_confidante_and

"AMY GOODMAN: This brouhaha over the last week with the White House healthcare summit, 120 people, there were going to be no single-payer advocates. Congressman Conyers asked to go. At first, he was told no. He directly asked President Obama at a Congressional Black Caucus hearing. He asked to bring you and Marcia Angell—


DR. QUENTIN YOUNG: Yes.


AMY GOODMAN: —former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. You weren’t allowed to go. Do you have President Obama’s ear anymore? You have been an ally of his for years, for decades.


DR. QUENTIN YOUNG: Well, it’s mixed. I think we’re friends, certainly. At this gala that you mentioned, which was embarrassing, he did send a very complimentary letter. And I appreciate that, but I’d much rather have him enact single payer, to tell the truth. And we did—it’s fair to say, after a good deal of protest, I think we were told there was a—phones rang off the hook. They did allow our national president, Dr. Oliver Fein, to attend with Dr. Conyers—Congressman Conyers..."