Tonight Obama said "I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single payer."
It was the AP who reported that Sen. Obama could have “a pretty good debate” with himself: “If he wanted, the Barack Obama of today could have a pretty good debate with the Barack Obama of yesterday.”
The fact is, Sen. Obama said he was a “proponent of a single payer health care plan” – not just in principle but in practice:
“So the challenge is, how do we get federal government to take care of this business? I happen to be a proponent of a single payer health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14% 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. And as all of you know, we may not get their immediately. Because firs we have to take back the white house, we have to take back the senate, we have to take back the house.” [VIDEO: Obama remarks at AFL-CIO, 6/30/03]
Today, he opposes single payer health care, and attacks Sen. Clinton for proposing a plan that covers everyone.
