Belly Dancers for Single Payer at the Supreme Court

A group calling themselves West Virginia Belly Dancers for Single Payer will be in front of the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow. The belly dancers will be backed up by musicians, and will be doing a routine they call “Shake it Up for Single Payer.”

The group has done its routine at political events in West Virginia – for example at members of Congress’ offices to demand single payer Medicare for all Americans.

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Single Payer Supreme

If the Supreme Court strikes down Obama’s individual mandate on Thursday, single payer will be front and center when the new health care debate starts on Friday.

Here’s one indication. A search of the Lexis news data base for the three months between January 1, 2012 until the Supreme Court heard oral arguments at the end of March shows that there were 595 articles that mentioned the phrase “single payer.”

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