Will Oct. 27 DC Hearing Make History For Health Rights?
PDA advisory board member, Rep. John Conyers Published by The Huffington Post/Exclusive. To energize public support for robust health care reform, a civil rights icon and two House leaders are planning a hearing and rally Oct. 27 on Capitol Hill. Their ambitious plan is to duplicate for health care the same kind of breakthrough legal reform achieved in civil rights by 1960s marches. Planners include the Rev. Walter Fauntroy of Washington, DC, who was the principal organizer of the 1963 civil rights march in Washington and of three 1965 marches in Alabama. “From every poll,” Fauntroy told me over the weekend in an exclusive interview for Huffington Post, “it’s clear that the people want an end to the tyranny of insurance companies. Insurers tyrannize doctors, they tyrannize patients. The news media have not focused on this. But the media won’t be able to ignore common people crawling over the halls of Congress─and the nation’s conscience will be pricked.” more] –> Another key planner i
