Conyers at Single-Payer Hearing: 'Everybody In; Right to Not Insurance or Policies, But Health Care'

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Congress listens (sort of) to single payer health care advocates.

Rep. Kline trashes and misrepresents single-payer systems.

CONYERS responds: "...tells us through two polls that this is the most popular system in the minds of most Americans - MOST Americans. But universal single-payer is not a new idea, as a matter of fact, every industrial country on the planet except one - us - already have some version of it. What we're doing is developing the American version."

"What we're doing, and we've examined all the systems on Earth, putting this all together, we're studying it. ... We've got another database of myths about this system... but we want to examine these and we cannot examine them without a hearing."

"So it is with some sadness that I report that it wasn't easy for me to get to that first summit that the President called. It was an enormous one, he's taken an enormous step here. We've got to help him. "

"Here's how I'm going to help my President. He is getting some mis-advice about health care. To think, that this sad substitute about the Massachusetts plan, and there are people from the state that can expound more greatly than I can, is going to move us forward. We're at a point now where we are going to take this opportunity and move forward and have everybody in, as a matter of Constitutional right, to health care, not health insurance, not policies, but health care itself, from the moment they're born, to the moment they leave Earth."

We are seeing what Health Insurance does.