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Marcia Angell's testimony before Senate Finance

“Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform”

Committee on Finance
United States Senate
May 12, 2009
Testimony of Marcia Angell, M.D.
(file does not exist)
http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/hearing051209.html

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.”

Marcia Angell's testimony before Senate Finance

"Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform"

Committee on Finance
United States Senate
May 12, 2009

Testimony of Marcia Angell, M.D.

(file does not exist)

http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/hearing051209.html

Comment:

By Don McCanne, MD

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.”