On Capitol Hill, Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus met with backers of single-payer healthcare Wednesday after excluding them from last month’s hearings on healthcare reform. Baucus reportedly expressed regret for refusing to hear their voices and said he would seek the dismissal of charges against thirteen single-payer advocates he had thrown out of the hearings after they protested their exclusion. But the advocates say Baucus expressed no willingness to reverse his principled opposition to single payer. Dr. David Himmelstein, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, said activists will need to continue protesting Baucus and other lawmakers who support for-profit healthcare.