House Committee Allows States to Create Single-Payer Healthcare

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This morning the House Education and Labor Committee voted yes to add the Kucinich amendment which will allow states to pursue single-payer healthcare. thanks to the work of tireless advocates like you, we won this small victory.

House Committee Allows States to Create Single-Payer Healthcare

David Swanson
 July 17, 2009

Kucinich amendment receives bi-partisan support http://www2.thedatabank.com/hm/309/image/dk-nice(1).jpg



On Friday morning at 9:45 a.m. ET in the House Committee on Education and Labor, the committee members voted 25 to 19 to pass Congressman Dennis Kucinich's amendment to the healthcare reform bill. This amendment, if it survives the full House, the Senate, the conference, and the President, will not alter the federal legislation except to allow states to create single-payer healthcare systems if they choose to. If this change to the bill makes news, it will pass the Senate, because there is no legitimate argument against it, and the support for it is bipartisan. more

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Tim Carpenter,
PDA National Director

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