November 3rd, 2009 7:27 PM
Single payers protest at Pelosi's office (click title to entry - thank you)
Politico
About 50 single-payer activists and labor union members held a sit-in at House Speaker Pelosi's San Fransisco office today where 11 people were arrested, said Chuck Idelson, spokesman for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. The group was protesting Pelosi's decision to strip the health care reform bill of a provision that would let states set up single-payer systems and withold a vote on Rep. Weiner's amendment to create a national single payer system.
The amendment to create a national single-payer system would have likely failed, but it would have allowed liberal members to go on record with their support. The provision to allow states to create a single payer system would have been a small victory for a movement that has seen little but defeat so far in this debate.
UPDATED: Idelson says that Weiner met with Pelosi last night so it's not certain that the amendment is dead.
