Remember when libs used to insist that Obama wasn't a socialist...

SFGbob said:

2001400ex said:

DJDuck said:

Bob is correct as usual.

Campaigning on Single Payer?

"We debunked this falsehood when Sen. John McCain said it during the third presidential debate. McCain claimed that “as he said, his object is a single payer system.” But as a presidential candidate, Obama didn’t say that at all. And the plan he proposed wasn’t a single-payer system, one in which everyone is covered by health insurance through the government. As we said in our Oct. 16 article, Obama said at a town hall meeting in Albuquerque last summer that a single payer system would “probably” be his first choice “if” he were “designing a system from scratch.” But instead, he said, his “attitude is let’s build up the system we got, let’s make it more efficient, we may be over time – as we make the system more efficient and everybody’s covered – decide that there are other ways for us to provide care more effectively.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2009/06/campaigning-on-single-payer/


"Obama, May 14: If I were starting a system from scratch, then I think that the idea of moving towards a single-payer system could very well make sense. That’s the kind of system that you have in most industrialized countries around the world.

The only problem is that we’re not starting from scratch. We have historically a tradition of employer-based health care. And although there are a lot of people who are not satisfied with their health care, the truth is, is that the vast majority of people currently get health care from their employers and you’ve got this system that’s already in place. We don’t want a huge disruption as we go into health care reform where suddenly we’re trying to completely reinvent one-sixth of the economy.

So what I’ve said is, let’s set up a system where if you already have health care through your employer and you’re happy with it, you don’t have to change doctors, you don’t have to change plans — nothing changes. If you don’t have health care or you’re highly unsatisfied with your health care, then let’s give you choices, let’s give you options, including a public plan that you could enroll in and sign up for. That’s been my proposal."

BTW Bob, Owl still has his insurance and it hasn't changed. I think he is still looking for that $2,500 though.

So he was for universal health Care. Got it.

He was for a single payer system and he just lied and claimed he wasn't. Kind of like how you lie here all the time. I can see why you like him so much. You both have a lot in common. Just like with gay marriage, now he feels free to state what his real position was all along. Medicare for all = single payer healthcare. Single payer health care = Nationalization of healthcare.