As Obama Continues Push for Healthcare Reform, House Committee Approves Kucinich-Sponsored Measure t

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As Obama Continues Push for Healthcare Reform, House Committee Approves Kucinich-Sponsored Measure to Keep Single-Payer Option Alive

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Thank you, Amy.

We passed an amendment that would permit states to be able to offer their own single-payer plan. This is the first time that such an amendment has been passed. It will strengthen the healthcare bill and give many people reason to support it, because states will have the opportunity and the option to create their own plan, as many states are trying to do right now, and a single-payer plan.

AMY GOODMAN: Explain exactly how this would work. If it’s not being considered at the federal level, how do states do it?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Well, states do it by using the resources that come to states and creating resources within the states to make sure that people within their state have healthcare. California twice has passed a measure that would provide for a single-payer solution. The governor has vetoed it, but there’s strong public support in California, in New York, in Illinois, in New Mexico, in Ohio, and other states, Pennsylvania, for a single-payer plan.

It’s just that the people in the state would be covered for all their basic healthcare needs and that—and when it’s possible at a state level, people will see how it can work at a state level, it, I think, will become more acceptable on the national level, as well.


http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/21/as_obama_continues_push_for_healthcare
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2009/july/video/dnB20090721a.rm&proto=rtsp&start=00:30:51

[midnight]

1. Glad to see the single payer option is staying afloat.

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Dennis Kucinich IS America's Congressman.