House Leaders Refuse To Reconsider Kucinich's Single-Payer Amendment
By Mary Susan Littlepage
Thursday November 5, 2009
Truthout
After Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), lobbied throughout the past week to get his amendment calling for a single-payer health care system modeled after Medicare back on the table, the House rejected Kucinich's attempts to reinsert the amendment in the bill.
That's after a committee stripped the amendment from the House health care bill without giving him any advanced explanation...
...The congressman also said he doesn't accept the decision to remove the amendment from the bill, and he said that there would be one more chance for the American people to push for a single-payer system.
"Once the health care bill passes the House, and the Senate passes its version, the two bills will go to a Conference Committee," Kucinich said. "It is at this point that we will have one more chance. We need to insist that the Kucinich Amendment be included in the Conference Committee report, since that is what will ultimately become law." Read the article