Barack Obama Said It: We Need Single Payer

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Dr. John Walsh, a neuroscience researcher from Worcester, Mass., stood Tuesday with 150 other sign-carrying supporters of government-financed health care outside the building where 400 invited guests would attend a regional health care reform forum sponsored by the Obama White House.

Walsh passed out yellow fliers that denounced President Barack Obama for failing to live up to promises to consider a Canadian-style health insurance system. "Single payer is the choice in the polls," Walsh declared.

Sandy Eaton of Quincy, Mass., and a member of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, came to the only forum scheduled for the Northeast to add his voice to those demanding that national policymakers weigh the merits of a government-financed system when they discuss reform options. "Lets make sure there is a fair and legitimate comparison," Eaton said...

[orbitalman]

1. I heard Pres. Obama say it !

I heard him previously say we should have a single-payer system if, "we could start from scratch." I think this is bull-pucky. I think he is worried about taking out insurance companies especially in this economy. But, I also believe there is a way to work this out. Single-payer could already have built-in administrators. After all, other countries with single-payer are not likely to have started from scratch, you know. Take the excess profit out of medicine.

[GreenTea]

2. FINALLY! He fucking said it! Yes, we want & need Single Payer Universal Health Care!!

[NorthCarolina]

3. Evan Bayh and his cadre' of ConservaDems will make sure nothing of the sort ever happens

by insisting any health care reform legislation be subject to achieving 60 votes in the Senate as opposed to a simple majority. No real reform will take place as long as the Blue Dog/DLC DINO's are calling the shots.