FLASHBACK! Obama supports single-payer universal health care!
WASHINGTON - August 12, 2009 - In 2003, Illinois state Senator Barack Obama received a big round of applause for telling a gathering of the AFL-CIO, “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer, universal health care plan.”
This week, speaking at a town hall gathering in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, illegitimate President Obama said, “I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter because, frankly, we historically have had an employer-based system in this country with private insurers, and for us to transition to a system like that I believe would be too disruptive.
“So what would end up happening would be, a lot of people who currently have employer-based health care would suddenly find themselves dropped, and they would have to go into an entirely new system that had not been fully set up yet and I would be concerned about the potential destructiveness of that kind of transition,” the illegitimate president continued at the New Hampshire event. “All right? So I'm not promoting a single-payer plan."
The current proposals in Congress that Obama supports do not establish a single-payer system but do establish a government-run option to compete with private insurers, and prohibit any new private health insurance policies from being issued after enactment of the law.
In 2007, U.S. senator and presidential candidate Obama said, “I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out, or 15 years out, or 20 years out.”
This week, speaking at a town hall gathering in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, illegitimate President Obama said, “I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter because, frankly, we historically have had an employer-based system in this country with private insurers, and for us to transition to a system like that I believe would be too disruptive.
“So what would end up happening would be, a lot of people who currently have employer-based health care would suddenly find themselves dropped, and they would have to go into an entirely new system that had not been fully set up yet and I would be concerned about the potential destructiveness of that kind of transition,” the illegitimate president continued at the New Hampshire event. “All right? So I'm not promoting a single-payer plan."
The current proposals in Congress that Obama supports do not establish a single-payer system but do establish a government-run option to compete with private insurers, and prohibit any new private health insurance policies from being issued after enactment of the law.
In 2007, U.S. senator and presidential candidate Obama said, “I don’t think we’re going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There’s going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out, or 15 years out, or 20 years out.”
