Michael Moore Stands Up for Single Payer, Tells Blue Dogs 'We Will Remove You From Office.'

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Submitted by meg on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 12:49pm.

BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Meg White

So Michael Moore produces a movie on the financial meltdown, and on the very week it is to premiere nationwide to what is projected to be record-breaking audiences, he holds a press conference on... healthcare?

"All of this is interconnected," Moore said at a press conference at the Washington, D.C. offices of Public Citizen, a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded in 1971. Moore insisted that none of the problems facing this nation will be resolved until the enormous wealth disparity in this country is fixed, which he said was at the root of the financial crisis as well as the healthcare debate. "I'm tired of making movies about single issues."

Moore shared the stage with Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen; Fred Redmond, vice president of United Steelworkers; Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women; Dorothy Moore Ahmad, a Chicago nurse representing the national union California Nurses Association and John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, a California-based nonprofit consumer advocacy organization. Each speaker embraced the idea of a Medicare-for-all, single-payer healthcare system as the best option for reform, with varying degrees of passion and flexibility.

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1. Go Michael!

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2. I say remove them and replace them with DSA members so there is

no more of this Blue Dog crap.

[timeforpeace]

3. Michael Moore for president! Hell, Michael Moore for God!