An activist on a bullhorn disrupted an outdoor Capitol Hill speech on health care by Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York).

Schumer was speaking at a rally sponsored by Health Care for America Now and a group of labor unions.

When Schumer was brought on the stage to address the crowd gathered at Upper Senate Park on Capitol Hill, Russell Mokhiber of Single Payer Action began demanding that Schumer and the Democratric leadership in Congress “put single payer on the table now.”

A gentleman from Maine wearing an SEIU shirt put his hand on Mokhiber’s shoulder and tried to get him to stop yelling at Schumer.

Someone grabbed Mokhiber’s bullhorn and tried to take it from him.

Another man came up to Mokhiber and told him to “shut the f– up.”

And a woman with an orange security vest told Mokhiber that “bullhorns are illegal on the grounds during the demonstration.”

“Are you with the police?” Mokhiber asked.

“No I’m not, but I just wanted to let you know that the police are coming, just to give you a heads up,” she said.

Thanks.

Mokhiber is one of the Baucus 13 — arrested last month for demanding that the Senate Finance Committee and Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) and the chair of the committee — allow at least one single payer advocate to testify before the committee.

Baucus held three days of health care hearings and heard from 41 witnesses — not one of which was a single payer advocate.

Baucus has since said it was a mistake not to allow a single payer advocate to testify before the Senate Finance Committee.

So has Senator Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota) (See related story here.)

Earlier this month, Baucus said that he will use the power of his office to seek to have the criminal charges against the Baucus 13 dismissed.

Prosecutors said this week they have not heard from Baucus or his office about the matter.

Health Care for America Now, the SEIU and other labor unions are all opposed to a single payer national health insurance system because it is “not politically feasible.”

Mokhiber translates “not politically feasible” as “Obama and the Democrats don’t have the political fortitude needed to stand up to the insurance industry.”

Single payer would put the 1,300 or so health insurance companies out of business and replace them with one single payer.

The Congressional Budget Office says the Obama plan would cost more than $1 trillion over ten years and still leave 37 million Americans uninsured.

Single payer would save $400 billion a year and use that money to cover everyone.