Source: The Missoulian (Lee Newspaper Chain, Montana)

Effort pushes ‘Medicare for all' system
By MIKE DENNISON Missoulian State Bureau


HELENA - As part of a grass-roots effort to reform health care, Montanans are sending ideas to President-elect Barack Obama - and, so far, many are saying that a national, “Medicare for all” system is the way to go.

“The consensus of (our group) was that we did not see a lot of change coming unless we went to a single-payer, universal health system,” said Deborah Hanson of Miles City, who organized a meeting of local citizens at the behest of Obama's transition team. “That was sort of a general consensus - knowing, of course, that may not happen.”

The Miles City meeting, held Dec. 21 at Hanson's home, was one of several in Montana and thousands held across the nation during the last two weeks of December.
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Obama's nominated secretary of Health and Human Services, former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, asked that Obama supporters hold local health care community discussions nationwide to gauge the problems people see with America's health care system and how they'd like to reform it.

Read more: http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2009/01...

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A great article, in depth about how people all over the state of Montana are showing up at Obama inspired health care forums, meetings, and discussions, and how the people overwhelmingly want single payer.

This is really important because Baucus has already dismissed single payer on ideological grounds, and this irrefutably undermines the primary "it isn't politically feasible" argument that Democratic single payer - opponents are using against single payer.