Reply #32: "he never said we should try it in the first place." [View All]

[rinsd]

"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, is spending 14 percent, 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. And 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, we have to take back the House."

We have the Senate & House and soon will have the Presidency no matter who the nominee is.

Conditions for single payer politically are better now than they have ever been.

That's why Clinton and Edwards talk about bridging to single payer though not making the direct leap.

Obama apparently is no longer interested.