Obama for single payer once, then he dropped it

[Mari333]

http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/08/11/barack-obama-was-for-single-payer-health-care-before-he-was-against-it/

ah I think more people should watch him waver on these videos
Then:during his candidacy
“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”

Now:that hes in power

‘I Have Not Said That I Was a Single-Payer Supporter’……`I believe it would be too disruptive’

looks like a lot of flippety flopping.

[aquart]

1. He's worried about insurance execs, etc. losing their jobs.

Which would, naturally, mean losing their health care.

[Mari333]

2. what bothers me more is seeing so many Dems selling out to compromise with big insurance companies

and I dont mean just the politicians.

[Deja Q]

4. Apparently, while most people want single-payer, most people also like the current system

(Someone told me the quote about people liking the current system several minutes ago)

[Deja Q]

3. Critics might be right; the convoluted nature of this plan - it might indeed fail.

http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-in-03-id-like-to-see-a-single-payer-health-care-plan/
(user comments at bottom)

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Apperently his views have evolved as he learned more about the issue

[Mari333]

6. Id say DEvolved is more like it. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

7. It's called reality.

[Mari333]

8. reality means selling out to corporate whores and big business interests?

okay.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Reality means that you live in the US of A, based on capitalism. There is no way that anybody is

going to go from a for-profit industry to a single-payer, universal system in a few months time. A strong public option is a good first step to getting there over several more decades.

[unkachuck]

14. that is true....

....if we hire capitalists, we have to expect capitalism.

[JVS]

17. It's called being sold out for corporate interests

[jtrockville]

21. That's right JVS. Say it like it is.

[Laelth]

9. k&r for the truth ... even about one of our own. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[blogslut]

11. He's a realist

Single Payer was never ever going to happen. He's giving us what is possible.

And seriously, Breitbart? You go there? For Bob's sake, why?

[Mari333]

12. its a video on youtube

doesnt matter where its from..he said it.
and he sold out.

[blogslut]

15. I know it's a video

I know that he said this in the past. I feel the same way. I would love to have single payer but I am also a member of the reality-based community. I know the difference between possible and impossible. If I wanted to waste my vote and my time, I would have supported Kucinich.


I'm just wondering why that site is linked here by a DUer. Breitbart is Drudge's hateful student. You know this.

[Mari333]

16. below the beltway

http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/08/11/barack-obama-was-for-single-payer-health-care-before-he-was-against-it/

[blogslut]

18. I've seen it

I saw it when he originally said it.

That doesn't counter the fact that single payer was never going to happen and that Obama is giving us what is possible.

[JVS]

19. Fuck what he's giving us. I'd rather things remain as they are.

[blogslut]

20. Well, I wouldn't

I have a child that will never be eligible for health insurance if things continue as is. I will never be able to afford any health insurance and the public option proposed by president Obama is my only hope because frankly, I probably won't live to the age where I will qualify for medicare.

So, there you go.

[BuyingThyme]

13. Shh!

[HughMoran]

22. hehe - you haven't changed a bit

I'll be glad when defcon is over so I don't have to read your predictable and bitter tripe.

[lamp_shade]

23. Oh. It's YOU.