A health care protest demo by doctors and nurses in DC has been canceled because, due to high pressure calls to demand inclusion of Single Payer supporters at the White House Summit...Two, so far, Single Payer supporters have been, albeit reluctantly, invited.

Now, to watch the news to see how, or if , this is reported.

(This is not to say that people ought not go to DC...Lafayette Park... to support Single Payer during this health summit....)

About Sixty Percent of US public support Single Payer...but, at this Health Summit, those people will be represented by 1.6 percent of the invitees. But all it takes is one drill to sink the Pirate...er...Private Insurance ship.

Here's This from Physicians for a National Health Program.
pnhp.org

We have good news.

This afternoon we received word that Dr. Oliver Fein, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, has been invited to participate in tomorrow's White House summit on health care. He will therefore be joining Rep. John Conyers in the meeting as a strong advocate for a single-payer national health program.

Given this development, we are canceling the demonstration outside the White House that was planned for tomorrow.

While it remains true that the number of single-payer advocates in the summit will be few in number, we feel we have won an important victory and that demonstrative activity at the White House at this juncture is unnecessary.

Please continue to urge your members of Congress and President Obama to support single-payer national health insurance, the only fundamental solution to our health care crisis.

And thanks to everyone who called and e-mailed the White House about including the single-payer viewpoint at the summit - you helped make this victory happen!

Cordially,

Quentin Young, M.D.
National Coordinator