Dr. Pat Salomon was arrested last month for demanding that single payer be heard by the Senate Finance Committee.

“The Congress is just bought off,” Dr. Salomon told Single Payer Action last week. “They will not hear single payer. Why won’t they hear it? What’s so dangerous about hearing about single payer? Understanding the fiscal principles behind it, the clinical principles behind it, the moral principles behind it. They won’t even give it a hearing. Why, what are they so afraid of?”

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.”