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“Senator Baucus is charging us with ‘disruption of Congress,’” Mokhiber said. “But who”s disrupting what? Here is the architect of health care reform in Congress. And he’s taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the drug and health insurance corporations. And sixty Americans are dying every day from lack of health insurance. And single payer is the only proven way to save the hundreds of billions of dollars in administrative overhead and profits needed to insure everyone. And the majority of Americans, doctors and health economists support single payer. And Baucus doesn’t even allow one person out of 41 over three days of hearings on health care reform to testify on behalf of single payer? How corrupt is that?”

    Kevin Zeese, another one of the Baucus 13 arrested on May 5, also wanted to question Baucus this morning.

    Zeese is the executive director of ProsperityAgenda.US.

    “Senator Baucus is putting the interests of the insurance industry ahead of the health care of Americans,” Zeese said. “He is living up to his reputation as the ‘Senator for K Street’ and should no longer be considered the senator for Montana.”

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