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Single-Payer Advocates Ambush Baucus in Washington, D.C.

By Beacon Staff

With cameras in hand, advocates for single-payer health care ambushed Montana Sen. Max Baucus last week. Led by Russell Mokhiber of singlepayeraction.org, activists followed Baucus down an alley near the Kaiser Family Foundation in downtown Washington, D.C., yelling questions at Baucus while he was pulling into the building. These were apparently some of the same people who protested – and were charged with “disruption of Congress” – at May 5 Senate Finance Committee hearing on health care coverage because no one testifying represented the single-payer system. They now call themselves “The Baucus 13.”