Starting tomorrow, single payer activists will be roaming Capitol Hill.

They will be demanding that C-Span be let in to cover health care negotiations.

The activists will be wearing t-shirts that read on the back:

C-Span In.

Big Insurance Out.

At least eight times during the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama promised that C-Span would be allowed to cover the health care negotiations.

Now, the Democratic leadership in Congress has said that the negotiations will take place behind closed doors.

C-Span will be left out.

“A year ago, at the behest of the insurance industry and pharmaceutical industry, the Congressional Democrats and President Obama took single payer off the table,” said Russell Mokhiber of Single Payer Action. “Those industries heavily influenced the drafting of the legislation. Now, these same Democrats want to ban C-Span from the final decision making process. It’s undemocratic. It’s not transparent. And it violates a pledge that Barack Obama made at least eight times in 2008.”

“We say — kick the insurance and pharmaceutical companies out,” Mokhiber said. “And let C-Span back in.”