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DESCRIPTION:Protest Senator Baucus in SF today for his ban on discussion of single 
 payer health reform in the U.S. Senate.\nMAX BAUCUS, LEADING US SENATOR ON 
 HEALTH REFORM, TO BE PICKETED BY "SINGLE PAYER" SUPPORTERS DURING HIS SF 
 VISIT TODAY\nSan Francisco health reform activists tell Max Baucus to put 
 single payer health care "on the table";  support HR 676, the US National 
 Healthcare Act and S 703, the American Health Security Act\n\nToday, on May 
 26, 2009, 6 pm, at 2436 Jackson Street in San Francisco,  "single payer" 
 health reform activists are gearing up to picket US Senator Max Baucus 
 (D-Mont.), who is in San Francisco to be the featured speaker at a 
 Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee meeting (DSCC describes itself as: 
  "...the largest organization solely dedicated to electing a Democratic 
 Senate in the country...".)   Single payer supporters are focusing their 
 attention on Senator Baucus, because when he chaired recent Senate Finance 
 Committee hearings, health reform activists demanded that he include a 
 proponent of single payer in the hearings, and when they disrupted the 
 hearings when he failed to do so, he had them arrested.   (Single payer 
 health reform would provide health care to everyone and eliminate the 
 health insurance industry.  HR 676 is the single payer bill in the U.S. 
 House and S 703 is the single payer bill in the U.S. Senate.  So far, 
 Senator Baucus has had 13 doctors and nurses arrested for trying to bring 
 up a discussion of single payer.  The chief lobbyist for the private 
 insurance industry and trade organizations that oppose fundamental reform 
 were allowed to testify, but no person advocating single payer was invited 
 to speak.\n\nSenator Baucus has said that single payer is "off the table".  
 Single payer supporters suggest that the public "connect the dots" between 
 Baucus' opposition to health reform which eliminates the health insurance 
 industry, and the campaign contributions Baucus gets from the health 
 insurance and pharmaceutical corporations, which are more than what any 
 other Democrat in Congress receives.  He got $183,750 from health insurance 
 companies and $229,020 from drug companies in the last two election 
 cycles.\nThe single payer bill in Congress, HR 676, sometimes called 
 "Medicare For All", is sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and would 
 would create a publicly financed health care system that would provide 
 health care to everyone in our country as well as eliminate the health 
 insurance industry.\n\nDon Bechler, chair of Single Payer Now says:  "The 
 question for Senator Baucus is:  'Why is he banning discussion of single 
 payer legislations?' When Senator Baucus says single payer is 'off the 
 table' and won't let any single payer supporters testify in Congress when 
 all of those with a financial interest in the health care system are 
 allowed to testify, that is a travesty in terms of free speech, governance, 
 and health care;  and it flies in the face of the best interests of the 
 majority. I would urge people who care about this issue to join us Tuesday 
 in San Francisco to picket Senator Baucus and send him a message that we 
 want single payer health reform.  And if you can't join us on Tuesday, 
 please call or fax Senator Baucus, and tell him to put single payer 'on the 
 table'.  His phone number is:  (202) 224-2651(Office);  and his fax number 
 is:  (202) 224-9412."\n\nSingle Payer Now is a statewide grassroots 
 advocacy group based in San Francisco. It educates and trains activists to 
 advocate for healthcare minus the insurance industry. In California, it 
 works toward the enactment into law SB 810, the California Universal 
 Healthcare Act;  companion bills HR 676 and S 703,  respectively, the U.S. 
 National Healthcare Act and the American Health Security Act.\n\nFor more 
 info, contact SPN chair Don Bechler at (415) 810-5826 or dbechler@value.net 
 or log on 
 towww.singlepayernow.net.\n\n##################\n----------------\n\n*CBS 
 News/New York Times Poll. April 22-26, 2009, 
 http://www.pollingreport.com/health.htm and\n*Associated Press-Yahoo Poll, 
 December 14 - 20, 2007,  
 http://www.pnhp.org/news/2007/december/where_are_we_on_refo.php\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/26/18598366.php
SUMMARY:SF health reform activists picket Senator Baucus & say: "Stop banning single payer"!
LOCATION:2436 Jackson Street in San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/26/18598366.php
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