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Pro-Single-Payer Demonstrators Burn Insurance Bills

HeadlineMar 12, 2009

In Washington, D.C., a small group of demonstrators rallied for single-payer healthcare outside the national meeting of the American Health Insurance Plans on Wednesday. A handful of protesters burned their health insurance bills as an act of protest. The rally was called by a new group called Single Payer Action that is advocating direct action to demand a single-payer health insurance system in the United States.

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