Diane Rehm will host a show about single payer national health insurance on Monday May 18 at 10 a.m. (Listen live on-line at wamu.org)

On Friday, Rehm says that after airing a show last week on health care reform, she was inundated with e-mails and phone calls from listeners demanding that she give more time to single payer.

The Monday May 18 show will feature Dr. David Himmelstein, a founder of Physicians for a National Health Program.

A group of single payer advocates challenged Senator Chris Dodd and Obama health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle in a public meeting in Derby, Connecticut on Saturday.

When Dodd took the microphone at the beginning of the meeting, Russell Mokhiber of Single Payer Action rose to challenge Dodd and DeParle and asked why they have taken single payer national health care off the table.

“Does it have to do with your corporate connections?” Mokhiber asked Dodd and DeParle.