Thanks to activist pressure, single-payer advocate Oliver Fein, MD, was allowed to participate in the White House health care summit. In his extensive post, Dr. Fein gives an inside account of the summit and lays out some reasons for cautious optimism for those pushing for a single-payer universal health care system.
The major single-payer bill in the House is HR 676. Dr. Fein reports that Senator Bernie Sanders is planning on proposing a counterpart bill in the Senate shortly.
From the Beaver County Blue website:
Read the full post here.
Read Joel A. Harrison's article on how U.S. taxpayers aren't getting what they're paying despite massive health care spending (from our May/June 2008 issue), and go here for more D&S coverage of health care issues.