“It’s a disgrace.”

With those words, Single Payer Action’s Russell Mokhiber tonight directly condemned Congressman Henry Waxman (D-California) for backing away from single payer national health insurance.

For years, Waxman, like other Congressional Democrats, supported single payer national health insurance.

But when the Democrats took control of the White House and the Congress this year, Waxman and others in the Congressional leadership took their names off HR 676 — the single payer bill in the House.

“It’s disgraceful you backed away from single payer,” Mokhiber told Waxman as the Congressman arrived at the Historic Synagogue at 6th and I Streets, N.W in Washington, D.C. to promote his book — The Waxman Report. “It’s going to cost 60 American lives a day.”

“Why did you back away from single payer?” Mokhiber asked Waxman.

“We have to get health care for all Americans,” Waxman said.

But the bill Waxman and Obama are supporting will not get health care for all Americans.

To the contrary, the Congressional Budget Office says it will leave 37 million Americans uninsured.

And it will likely bankrupt the health care system.

Only single payer saves the billions necessary to insure all Americans — cradle to grave.

“It’s going to be a weak public plan,” Mokhiber told Waxman. “It’s nothing. It’s just a disgrace.”