Marcia Angell's testimony before Senate Finance
Posted by Don McCanne MD on Tuesday, May 12, 2009This entry is from Dr. McCanne's Quote of the Day, a daily health policy update on the single-payer health care reform movement. The QotD is archived on PNHP's website.
“Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform”
Committee on Finance
United States Senate
May 12, 2009Testimony of Marcia Angell, M.D.
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It didn’t happen.
After nurses and physicians supporting single payer were removed from the audience, single payer was mentioned once only parenthetically.
During a discussion on the tax deductibility of employer-sponsored health plans, Sen. Max Baucus indicated that we should retain the tax preference, perhaps with modifications, since we should work with what we have and not make a radical change.
In response, considering that eliminating the tax preference would be a radical change especially impacting workers, Gerald Shea of AFL-CIO stated, “If we’re going to do a radical change, I think that single payer is really the way to go.”
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