Apparently, some nurses were arrested at a Senate Finance Committee meeting on health care reform because they protested the meeting’s lack of representation for those who support a single-payer health care system.

I doubt that they got violent, but maybe they were disruptive enough to end up in the paddy wagon. Or perhaps the arrest was deliberate, in order to bring attention to the single-payer issue, which has been pretty much ignored in the hubris over healthcare reform.

Again, I think that single payer is not as cut and dry as some make it out to be, and certainly, a lot of issues would have to be addressed in order to make that a reality. But I think that single payer advocates should at the very least, be given a seat at the table along with everyone else, and that option should be discussed.

The AJN has a short report on the great nurse arrest of 2009.