Protesters today feigned death for twenty-two minutes inside of Earl Blumenauer’s office. The protest was in favor of single payer health care, which could save twenty-two thousand lives a year.

KBOO’s Peter Shoaf went to the scene.

Advocates of a single payer healthcare system held a silent protest yesterday at a town hall in forest grove.

the event, which focused on healthcare issues, was hosted by senator ron wyden.

Kboo’s rebecca Nay spoke with Philip Kauffman from the group Single Payer Action.

Host Roberta Hall interviews Dr. Chunhuei Chi, who is from Taiwan. He talks about economic disparities and other social issues that make health in a society worse and about ways that health care can be restructured. He has advised the Taiwanese government as it developed, and later restructured, its national health plan.

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 Pediatrician Margaret Flowers was among those arrested for protesting the exclusion of single payer advocates at the recent Senate hearings on health reform.  Here she talks with Bill Resnick about how for-profit health insurance led her to quit her practice and start organizing for a national health care program.