Marcia Angell's testimony before Senate Finance
“Financing Comprehensive Health Care Reform”
Committee on Finance
United States Senate
May 12, 2009
Testimony of Marcia Angell, M.D.
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http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/hearing051209.html
Comment:
By Don McCanne, MD
It didn’t happen.
After nurses and physicians supporting single payer were removed from the audience, single payer was mentioned once only parenthetically.
During a discussion on the tax deductibility of employer-sponsored health plans, Sen. Max Baucus indicated that we should retain the tax preference, perhaps with modifications, since we should work with what we have and not make a radical change.
In response, considering that eliminating the tax preference would be a radical change especially impacting workers, Gerald Shea of AFL-CIO stated, “If we’re going to do a radical change, I think that single payer is really the way to go.”