A move to single payer insurance would have to pass through Congress and would probably be tested before the Supreme Court.
I agree. But I think TOTAL CONTROL is more important to progressives than quality of care or shortages of doctors/hospitals. We have examples of how bad the systems in England and Canada are. They don’t care.
“I’m all for a single payer system eventually. I think that (what) we have to do is work with what we’ve got until we close the gap.”
SEBELIUS, 2007
“I think that the idea of moving towards a single payer system could very well make sense.”
OBAMA, 2009
“What we’re trying to do is insure everybody, right? We’re trying to insure more people, not less and so it’s my feeling that the rising costs that are going on will not be solved by getting rid of people’s health insurance—that throws them into emergency rooms and charity and other things. That’s why HR 676 [SINGLE PAYER] is our ultimate solution—is that everybody’s insured from birth on and that’s what we’re still fighting for.”
“Do you see a single-payer health care system ultimately in the United States?”...”Universal health care—well, every industrial country on the planet already has a universal system of health care.” When asked if he thinks President Obama’s health-care law will lead to a single-payer health-care system in the U.S., he said: “Well it’s a platform. I don’t think they flow smoothly but without that, if we didn’t have this then health care, universal health care would be an even more difficult legislative objective.”
JOHN CONYERS, 2011
“What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever.”
When then asked by panelist Steve Sebelius whether he meant ultimately the country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance as the means of accessing it, “Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.”
HARRY REID 2013