It appears that Washington doesn’t even want to include single payer as an option in the universal healthcare coverage debate. The reason for the obstruction is basically tied to the money that the healthcare and pharmaceutical corporations flood campaigns with. This is why we need to change congress.

Eight doctors and other advocates of a national single-payer health care system–which would improve and expand Medicare to everyone–were arrested yesterday when they disrupted a Senate committee meeting on health care reform.

The single-payer advocates wanted to know why experts representing their position were being excluded from the roundtable of 15 witnesses speaking before the Senate Finance Committee’s roundtable on health reform.

Private health insurance corporations and the pharmaceutical industry are the enemy and the obstacles we have to overcome if we want true health care reform.

You can learn more about their efforts by reading this PDF file. It is indeed the health insurance industry and it’s lobbying tentacle AHIP, that stands in the way of single payer or any universal healthcare plan. I’d probably throw Big Pharma and it’s thugs over at Phrma in this as well. In addition to protesting at AHIP’s love fest, the nurses will also be protesting at the offices of Cigna, Humana, Blue Cross/Blue Shiled and GHI to name a few.