Oregoncharles

Kudos to the California Nurses Association and Healthcare Not Warfare campaign! By the way, just why is it you are still Democrats?

Wouldn't you be more likely to hire employees minus the hassle of paying their health care?

Just another burden off the employer.

"The C-SPAN cameras fixed on both the Committee's table at the front of the room and the witness table directly across from them could have easily picked up the protests but the network chose to keep their cameras fixed only on Chairman Baucus - though the protestors' words could be heard in the audience."

The only difference between C-SPAN and outlets like Fox or PBS is commercials. C-SPAN is state-worshiping propaganda just like any other mainstream media outlet.

--
Eric Patton
Cincinnati, OH
ebpatton@yahoo.com

Sioux Rose

I can't help but notice a parallel between the way these conscientious protestors were treated, and the same basic disrespect for those who were against the ILLEGAL, case-fixed-for-war Iraqi invasion, too. And then, too, guns are the holy of holies in this land of too many under thrall to Mars rules, and as a result many deaths result. And road rage is a given with 40,000 or more highway fatalities a year, but courtesy is all too rare. Alcohol is everywhere sold, though it configures in all kinds of violent reactions in too many. But pot, the peace pipe, any talk of peace or including society's members in practices that reflect kindness, compassion, or consideration (in this case health care extended to all) get targeted as UNLAWFUL.

If anyone was reading about these priorities from a different space and time, they would see how INSANE the nation has become, how departed from its own founding ideals and intended government design. Many improvements were made in the l960's & l970's to include more voices at the table; but since the l980's, it's as if those agents bound and determined to consign this nation's citizens (and many others around the world) to a new Dark Age, an era where the condemned must subsist on crumbs and when they become ill from the exposures to Goddess knows how many chemical effluents, have made enormous progress. Washington has become a moral sewer. I remember freak floods there a few years ago that nearly drowned our Constitution and Bill or Rights. It's all washing away the voices of the nature spirits echoed. The representatives turn from genuine justice to conduct the business of state as it rapes the treasury and mistreats citizens. These interlopers are setting themselves up for quite the karmic boomerang. With these items taken in sum, once their full force is felt we are quite likely to see massive citizen unrest. I think the lid is still on because so many are bamboozled into thinking things are better than they are, or are thus convinced they are lucky to have their personal privileges and best not rock the boat (or they will lose those benefits). Something is going to turn over the tables of the moneychangers who have made Wall St their new temple of Mammon. The suffering induced by those with a marked depraved indifference to basic humanism is reverberating like a silent earthquake. The center cannot hold.

The created reality is falling apart, cspan, fox, etc. are collapsing with them. we won.

there will be no socialized healthcare, mainstreet is becoming a ghost town, the rhetoric is just whistling through the graveyard. FORTRESS AMERIKKKA is here.

The only question is why is the left and the right SO sad about the passing away of the "middle class"? And not outraged for the women and children of all classes? Why is this fantasy middle group so important?

Everyone knows and has known for a very long time that there is no "middle". Just the top 2% and everyone else, hustling like crazy to stay alive.

We are a third world dystopia, Keep protesting, get arrested, resist, struggle is our art.

Bear in mind,These corporate swine CANNOT be shamed, they will not give up their perceived advantage.

They can only be physically removed, like these protesters.

This is a job for Dawg the bounty hunter.

Ms Smith,

I will be writing a scathing letter to my two Senators Bond and Mcaskill now that my blood is boiling after hearing about the uncalled for arrest of Dr. Flowers. And I won't be alone. Surprisingly, most of my neighbors, especially the older ones, have been crying for single payer healthcare even if some of them were rabid social conservatives. They are definitely going to be up in arms when they read this article that I am passing to them.

I would strongly urge others to do the same and especially the good folks in Montana who are being misrepresented by a corporatist Baucus.

What really pisses me off about this whole charade is that ever fucking person on that Senate committee has the very best solid gold health care paid for by all of us. Does anyone believe they'd ever turn it down because it's taxpayer supported. The truth is they NEVER would. But, these same hypocrites will go on and on about how it's to expensive for the rest of us.

Impeachment is off the table. Single payer health care is off the table. The only thing that Congress seems to care about is what is under the table.

I hate that damn table.

Joe

Jeevee

We have become The United States of Narcissism!!! What will "realistically" get us off this addiction to greed and other forms of self-interest?

Joe...GREAT COMMENT !!!

It used to be said - during the civil rights era - that by filling the jails you could effect change. That making the state incarcerate people would force the state to change the way it did things. Too bad the usa has become a police state that is more than willing to lock up more and more people. Expanding medicare to cover all yanks is a no-brainer, no wonder it's something the congress and house can't understand it.

The treatment of these activists - Baucus shouting "more police!" is not only an assault on the right to healthcare, but it is also an assault on Democracy itself and is vile.

HR 676 was re-introduced on Jan. 26, 2009, and has been referred to the House Natural Resources, House Ways and Means, and House Energy and Commerece Committees. It can be researched at: www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-676. You can find out who sits on those committees, and contact them if you'd like, particularly if they happen to be from you're district. What I don't understand is that if a bill has been introduced in congress, (for the second time-this is a re-introduction)and there is a Presidentially mandated task force looking for solutions to the problem that the bill addresses, how the fuck is it not included in the debate? Where is the outcry from the House. Where is Conyers? He wrote it. Where is Kucinich? He pushed it hard during the 2008 Primary. WTF. Is that legislation just to appease, not meant to pass, or be taken seriously by even the author? It reminds me of the Impeach Bush/Cheney legislation introduced twice by Kucinich. No one took it seriously, and nothing was done, except Kucinich appeared to be the hero of Congress, from my stand point. I really like him as an outspoken congressman. I'd really hate to find out that he, too, is a shill.

So much for my email to my Senator, who serves on this committee, asking them to please include Single Payer supporters.

Solution: Make a wall map of countries that have universal health care (this now includes Rwanda). Get a set of darts. Throw a dart at the wall map and plan to ask for asylum in whatever country the dart lands on.

This will send your blood pressure to boiling.

Senator Charles Schumer-D, NY has set about to DESTROY the "Public" option from the pending Healthcare legislation.

From the NY Times:

Mr. Schumer said his goal was “a level playing field for competition” between public and private insurers...

The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, asked Mr. Schumer to seek a solution. In his response, Mr. Schumer set forth these principles:

* The public plan must be self-sustaining. It should pay claims with money raised from premiums and co-payments. It should not receive tax revenue or appropriations from the government.

* The public plan should pay doctors and hospitals more than what Medicare pays. Medicare rates, set by law and regulation, are often lower than what private insurers pay.

* The government should not compel doctors and hospitals to participate in a public plan just because they participate in Medicare.

*To prevent the government from serving as both “player and umpire,” the officials who manage a public plan should be different from those who regulate the insurance market.

The full and unedited story at:
http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/5142#more-39730

*** By the time the Senate gets finished the "Public" option of the bill will be absolute garbage worth less than a credit default swap.

Single payer advocates cannot sit back and let the insurance industry continue to push its agenda. I'm ready to get arrested for healthcare - where can I sign up?

I called Senator Baucus's office and expressed my disgust with his actions today and also voiced my displeasure that he is a whore for the big players against the public single payer plan. i must admit i am angry now and wish i lived in scandinavia. We must continue the fight for single-payer.

1-800-828-0498
1-800-459-1887
1-800-614-2803
1-866-340-2981

These are all FREE calls to the Capitol Switchboard.

Ask the operator to connect you to any member of congress.

Many congress members have voicemail so you can leave a message 24hrs a day.

Call as many times you as like.

Post these numbers on every messageboard you visit and include in all your outgoing e-mail.

Lets begin a discussion about when enough is enough. We have never had the ability to communicate as easily as today. For the time being, stay on the side of peaceful activities.
It is time to water the tree of liberty.
Jefferson

I suggest a day in October. Not too hot, not too cold.

Many years ago, Chicago activists were fighting for improved housing in Chicago. They were taking on Mayor Richard Daley, who refused to listen to any members of the community (sound familiar - single payers).

Saul Alinsky, noted activist and mentor of Obama, organized a piss-in at O'hare Airport - Daley's pride and joy. Men were to position themselves at urinals and take 30 minutes each. All stalls, male and female, were occupied by activists with reading material and lunch - sorry Larry Craig.

When you fly, you often rush from the plane to the toilet...and if they are all occupied....occupeed ?

Just the threat brought Daley to the table

A similar action almost took place in Rochester against Kodak. Activists bought front row tickets for the Rochester Symphony and found "volunteers" who were noted for their ability to pass wind. A new wind section...

Just the threat ....worked

We need similar action - a sick-in with projectile vomiters at the capital,
from the balcony - a true technicolor laugh...

Gastric disturbances at any number of public events ..."If only I had health care, I could take care of this little problem" teeshirts

We must show our disgust in creative ways ...

Power to the people !!!

Come now, had the California Nurses Association had paid baucus 1 million dollars they would have been allowed to speak to singlpe payer.

Remember.

You can have all the Free speech you want if you PAY for it.

Earlier this evening, I saw Russ Feingold on "Democracy Now" almost squirming at Amy Goodman's pointed questions about single-payer.

Feingold tersely said that it had no chance to get passed in this Congress.

Why not, if We the People clearly support the idea? Amy persisted.

Feingold offered an uncharacteristically lame response, to the effect that many politicians didn't want to risk supporting a major program that might backfire and anger their constituents.

He didn't address the merits, or offer any justification for his emphatic assertion that THIS CONGRESS WILL NEVER ENACT SINGLE-PAYER, PERIOD!

Feingold flatly claimed that he supported single-payer, which is commendable, as far as it goes. But when a supporter of single-payer earnestly declares it DOA, how far DOES it go, exactly?

I think he threw in a standard bogus silver-lining, to the effect that Congress would doubtless cough up health-care legislation-- like a cat coughing up a hairball-- containing features that would PAVE THE WAY for the beginning of the end of the beginning of coming to terms and conquering singlepayerphobia.

I'm paraphrasing broadly, of course. But he did slip in the curious hope that our elected officials failing to grasp the health-care nettle is not only the best We the People can expect, but will ultimately have a win-win outcome.

Thus, he all but admitted that the only, or real, reason single-payer wasn't happening is because Congress is so self-serving and pusillanimous that they'd rather stamp their feet and just say "no", regardless of popular sentiment AND especially the obvious MERITS of that approach.

In short: WE can't have it because THEY don't want it!

And, as Baucus demonstrated, the politicians do not scruple to stick their fingers in their ears and yell, "La, la, la, la! I can't HEAR you!" when confronted with righteous citizen protesters-- until the bouncers come to roust the hecklers.

Some representative republican democracy we got here, huh?

· Yr Obd't Servant

I would call my congress Michele Bachmann, however this would be as effective as farting into the wind. She is always on the side of Big Corporations and extreme groups like Concerned women for America, Eagle Forum and Dr. Dobson's Focus on the Family. She proudly wears her ignorance as she is a warrior for jesus dont ya know.

It's a sad day for America when advocates for universal healthcare are treated like criminals, and torturers and murderers are praised as dedicated public servants acting in good faith, promised protection from prosecution, kept in their positions of trust without accountability, continued on their government salaries and promised generous retirement benefits.

We need a march of the uninsured and the underinsured and the ripped off and insured! We need a million people on the Mall in DC and soon. If we don't get in Obama's face and Congress on this then we'll lose. The Dems. are just as corrupt as the rethugs but the difference is they need us to hold onto their seats. We need a BIG BIG crowd in DC soon or we LOSE this forever.

All we need is one person with the swine flu (real or imagined) to start hacking away in the house or senate chambers.

Then announce that they just got back from Meico

That should clear the chambers.

And are the nurses/technicians in the congressional health facilities union. They should walk out on the privilleged.

I also think we need a millions person march for single payer now. I am disappointed in "the left", with the exception of people outspoken and involved in the single payer issue. I even suspect some are sell-outs or just don't care because their own health policies are among the few cushier ones. Being "left" for them, is only fashion. They don't walk the talk. They figure their stories from the nineteen sixties give them a free pass.

There was a march in washington recently that went through dismally, in part, I think, because they are unable to focus on issues of importance affecting Americans' everyday lives in a very immediate way. Like a National Health Insurance Act. If Congress were forced to listen to Americans on healthcare alone, that would have enormous impact on what they'd have to do in other areas -- like military -- in order to deliver. To get them to move on this issue, we need put aside differences that normally divide us in other areas. Like the military. Just focus on single payer health, people. 65% of Americans want this. With roughly similar percentages across parties, and close to 60% of the medical profession, with much higher percentages within specialties.

If enough of us showed up in Washington, and left the signs concerning Iraq and every other cause behind at home, and could shut their mouths about the Middle East and every other hot button issue that turns many of their fellow Americans off, believe me, Washington would listen to us. And I for one, would pay for a couple of bus tickets to the other side of the country in order to be there. Come out of retirement from the demonstrations that no longer represent me, my children, and my interests.

Thank you to every individual there who was arrested for their fellow Americans' healthcare.

SEAGLASS
a march on the capital is probably the only thing that's going to counteract corporate influence, though it didn't stop the invasion of Iraq.

it is so clear at this moment that the American people are disenfranchised. Health insurance is such an important part of the insurance industry revenue stream...

I do greatly admire the stalwarts of the CNA and other activists, but at the same time I am so disgusted by the corruption of the system that I am overcome by a paralyzing sense of futility.

the "representative democracy" is simply not working. It isn't representative of the majority will of the people, and it isn't democratic no matter how it is spun.

So far Obama ain't no FDR. He's a corporate shill. Maybe if things get much worse, his testicles will descend...if he actually has any.

This baccus turd has shown nothing but contempt for the people, even those that elected this scum bag. He certainly used his position for a personal political gain to out and out tell the people that for us, there is no debate, just jail. He better never ever come to my house as I will take it a deadly threat to my life and I will act accordingly. And being a democrat does't give him any points because in my eyes all of congress and the president have proven there is but one party and that is the ELECTORATES. And they are 95% of them treasonous bastards deserving of full penalties of the law.

There needs to be and organization that will come up with the people's 'place holders' so when a committee convenes for discussion, the people's place holders will bump the lobbyist's placeholders out of line and when the committee starts its proceedings the people's place holders will be there instead of the lobbyists.

Lobbyists are all criminals that need to the arrested and tried for bribing an elected official.

Here's a thought: Stop paying your medical bills. I have. It's a form of direct action. Don't wait for politicians to grant you a right to health care. Take it.

I'm in a bind right now because I was advised to have a biopsy but am concerned that if I am diagnosed with cancer I won't qualify for health insurance (I'm looking for a job that offers health benefits) or that I'll have to wait 6 mos. for treatment because of a pre-existing condition. Shouldn't I be more concerned about my health? I guarantee you not one person in Congress ever has this dilemma over a family member.

I'm also getting tired of the nonchalant attitude of acquaintances who have health insurance. They constantly tell me, "You need to find a job with health insurance!" Or "You need to get health insurance!" as if it's affordable and jobs offering fully paid benefits are so common.

The oligarchy has studied the system minutely. It knows that the people won't revolt if it keeps them in debt to its healthcare insurors and its other corporations, banks and IRS. If people are kept well entertained with its media, sedated with its booze, anxious about their jobs, insecure about their safety, in fear of each other, resigned to their religion, spied upon, raided, jailed, disappeared, and led by its puppet politicians.

It's all going well according to plan.

It's only a matter of time until Big Pharma has Xi shooting citizens in the streets.
Is America's Posse Comitatus or just Comatose?
Write a message on an old shoe and send it to your own Senator's local office.

I think what's next is people will start getting so desperate they'll offer to sell a kidney in exchange for a surgery or medication they can't afford.

Stay the course, it's a worthy cause.

Health-care for all citizens needs to be a social right. And the single-payer option needs to be heard.

http://activism101.ning.org

I'm Tweeting this news.

This corrupt system does not even give their combat veterans health care--they use every excuse on their books to deny veterans decent care. If you think this same system is going to pony-up to include the average tax-payer--think again.
They only have enough money to maime, kill, and destroy--there's none for constructive purposes like peace, discovery, health care, schools and industry that serves the common good.

There is no doubt, that our Senators and most of Congress are bought and paid for. The people whom should be in handcuffs, led off to jail, are being given billions of dollars to cover their gambling debts. The blood sucking health care profiteers are treated as honored guests.
The corporations are dismissing people for the stock price and forgettting that once you sell an item you never get another return from it. Until we vote the crooks out and get publicly funded campaigns; this is the kind of demecrocy we deserve. Next, they'll be ordering your own love ones in the military, to shoot you for civil disobedience. But they fail to take into consideration who makes up the military; mostly our sons and daughters. The poor, who's families are suffering, ain't going to shoot their ma and pa.

Seriously, phone calls will do squat. It's time for a revolution...I don't know about you, but most of the messages won't ever reach the intended recipient. Anyway, phone calls don't really push their buttons....anymore than emails. We need to just take what we want through sheer numbers and force of appeal and by our votes. How many times have we gone the phone call/email route? Remember before they passed that mindboggling bailout? Those Senators and Congressmen must have gotten 10x what they're getting now and they still didn't budge. They ripped off the taxpayers like never before in the history of humankind.

ducksawce - now that is a truly brilliant set of suggestions.

Not another March!!! But a march to each of the washington monuments, including the white House and peeing on all of them, plus leaving doggy doodoo bags behind, minus the baggie...

Plus doing same at the local offices of all members of the committee, plus one's own senators, and maybe at the offices of the Insurance Companies and Pharmaceuticals...

Now that would really get everybody's attention...

It's a shame that people like Max Baucus are put in the positions they are put in..This is not the change we can believe in as Obama promised.. Baucus is purposely leaving single payer off the table because if it was on the table,it would prove to be the best solution to America's healthcare nightmare..It would also put Baucus's friends in the for profit health insurance business ,out of business.. Dealing with the for profit health insurance companies to solve our healthcare crisis is like dealing with AL Queda to solve our terrorism problem.
The only difference is the health insurance companies are responsible for more deaths and financial ruin to innocent Americans than was ever done by a terrorist organization.. Yet they are allowed to exist and continue to pillage the citizens of this country with the blessings of a government who apparently doesn't give a damn.. Maybe it is time for a revolution..Maybe more people have to show up at these government healthcare reform charades and let their voices be heard above the voices of the special interests..It's unbelievable that people like Max Baucus are still given credibility as servants of the people... NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH!!!!!!!!

The really scary part of this story is the obstinate refusal of those in charge to even listen to or consider single-payer. For now, they have had their way, but as JFK once observed:

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable."

This problem of the rationing of healthcare is already a big and serious problem that will only grow as the boomer population reaches retirement age. Human beings are not peaceful by nature and when pushed (or ignored) long enough they will resort to violence. An angry army in the tens of millions with nothing to lose will not go quietly in the night.

Everybody knows who the politicians, punditry, and business leaders who are blocking an honest discussion of this issue and it is only a matter of time before hostages are taken, facilities are destroyed, or other forms of chaos will occur not allowing "business as usual" to continue.

Poet

One more demonstration of how corrupt the Senate, which calls itself, "the greatest deliberative body of legislators in the world" (Arelen Specter)is. There is not a body of legislators more sold out and indebted to special interests in the world. The beginnings of a true reform would be a new constitution that eliminates the Senate. Its a bad bunch of individuals but more than that its a bad idea for a democracy which really wants to represent people's not corporate interest.

"Every dictator plans to rear, raise, feed, and train his fellow men as the breeder does his cattle. His aim is not to make the people happy but to bring them into a condition which renders him, the dictator, happy. He wants to domesticate them, to give them cattle status. The cattle breeder also is a benevolent despot." - Ludwig von Mises

"The first truth is that the liberty of democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism-ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Oops!

Unfortunately, we also have to face the fact that there is a substantial part of the US population - possibly a majority, that either:

1. have never heard the phrase "Single Payer healthcare",

2. are smugly comfortable with their own job-provided plans, and so really don't care about the less fortunate - Obama has expressed this himself in so many words; or,

3. are completely indoctrinated with the nonsense scare story, of "socialized medicine"

- or are all of the above.

The majority of the supposedly educated, "professional" engineers in my work place usually fall under all three of the above categories.

The thing that is missing in the US that is present in every other civilized nation, that is necessary if we are ever going to suceed on this effort, is compassion for the less fortunate, and a sense of "I might be in that person's shoes someday". This is especially missing among it's much fawned-over, smug, contemptable, suburban, "middle class".

A google search indicates that this action was not mentioned in a single mainstream news outlet. Totally memory-holed.

This story has been bothering me more and more since I first read it yesterday. It just boggles my mind, though by now I suppose it shouldn't, that NOT ONE representative voice was allowed for the single-payer, medicare-for-all, publicly-insured plans, that have more than 70% support from the public, and that at what was billed to be but a Senate exploratory "roundtable" on health care "reform" packages!!! The Democrats have truly become every bit as Stalinist as the Republicans. [Make sure you watch the you-tube videos on this one!] All the Senate participants, and their insurance-industry packed audience, just pretended there were simply no other options available than more of the same corporate fleecing of citizens that we have now -- the most expensive system in the world by far! And then when the demonstrators, including many respected physicians and nurses, attempted to protest the phony-ass proceedings, -- one truly can't help but think of the Stalinist "show trials" of 1930s when watching them -- the Senators, under "chairman" Baucus, had them all handcuffed and hauled away by the Senate cops!! So much for either party caring in the slightest about the most basic principles of democracy, or even the pretense, thereof!! Good Lord, how hard could it have been for the committee to at least allow a representative or two of the Single-Payer idea a few minutes of time to speak within all the hours they had set aside for their "exploratory" hearings? Evidently their bosses in the mega-insurance industry, who are every bit as fraudulent as their associates in the so-called financial industry, simply couldn't allow anyone to bring up the fact that the American people are more than a little tired of paying a 40+% premium to the mega insurance corporations for making health-care far LESS efficient than it is when run by the government under the medicare program we have right now!! Congress has truly become nothing but one big cat-house! At every turn they are concerned only to enrich their corporate pimps, while the American citizens are regarded simply as "Johns" to be fleeced -- except, of course, that real pimps and prostitutes, -- or these days mostly sex-slaves, according to last night's Frontline -- at least have the decency to provide some small "service" before fleecing their marks. It's truly an outrageous moment when even the MAJORITY view, -- which Tocqueville mistakenly thought we had most to fear -- will no longer even be heard, however briefly, much less thoughtful considered, by the people's alleged "representatives"!

THIS STORY SIMPLY MUST BE TOLD AS BROADLY AS POSSIBLE!! [The news blackout on it is almost as big a scandal as the story itself.]

For a Youtube link, and Kevin Zeese's fine comments, go to:

http://www.counterpunch.org/zeese05062009.html

sierra7
My recent Letter-to-editor of local paper here in Sonora, Calif:

"Letter about Single Payer Health Care
Submitted to Union Democrat
Published on line March 25, 2009

President Barack Obama promises health-care reform, but he has taken single-payer health care off the table. Single-payer is the system that removes private insurance companies from the picture; the government pays all the bills, but health-care delivery remains private. People still get their choice of what doctor to go to and what hospital to use. Single-payer reduces the administrative costs and removes the profit that insurance companies add to health-care delivery. Single-payer solutions, however, get almost no space in the debate.
So far only two people have been invited out of the 120 to contribute to the “reform” that has been promised by this administration. The major media has been very reluctant to cover any Single Payer stories.
Coming to mind would be the accusations (like in the financial disaster) of “socialism” or other derogatory descriptions. Most who impugn the prospect of Single Payer and use those types of accusations haven’t a clue what they are talking about and will not spend time to research the subject objectively.
And, of course the hugely profitable corporations, who have made a disastrous commodity out of our societal well being, have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat even a remote idea of Single Payer.
From economics Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, "I've reluctantly come to the view that it’s the only alternative," to health-care providers themselves, who witness and endure the system's failure firsthand. The newly formed, 150,000-nurses-strong United American Nurses-National Nurses Organizing Committee said: "It is the only health-care-reform proposal that can work.”
Will we join the rest of the civilized world and consider the health of our citizens as, “the wealth of our country”?

We need follow up letters.....

yet again, more arrests in the senate of single-payer folks. Madness.

Do any of the multi-payer folks whom seek real reform believe they can pass laws to amend our broken system without the participation of single-payer folks?

ch> We have 13 brave soldiers, in this movement for a single-payer.
they seek healthcare justice, it's because they care,
these men were arrested, for things he knew was right
may serve time, pay heavy fines, for our wellbeing they fight.

2 Hebrew men arrested, for things they knew were right,
thrown in the fiery furnace, they trusted in God's might,
But God delivered these men, for us can do the same.
have our soldiers acquitted, and bring our heroes to fame.

3 Daniel was arrested, for things he knew was right,
told that he must not pray, he prayed both day and night.
But God delivered Daniel, calmed the lions' mouths,
For us can do the same, and bring us Healthcare-Now.

chorus and 2 verses of a song I wrote for our heroes who were arrested.

I have learned about Marilyn Clement; I am still mourning her death. I have promised I would do everything I could to keep that flame burning bright. We will win single-payer, HR-676.

Last verse, parody to Maxwell Silver Hammer

What can we do, we must remove the insurers and their crimes,
install HR 676 for now it is the time.
with a single-payer healthcare everybody's covered and noone's left behind.
At last healthcare will be our right, oh won't it be so fine.
Hand and hand we'll fight this fight, healthcare will be our right.

Bang bang then our silver hammer falls on insurers heads, bang bang then their wicked practices will one day be all dead.