Barack Obama vs. the Truth, Part 2: Single-payer health care

Obama speaking at a New Hampshire town hall on August 11, 2009

"But the point is, government pays for everything. Like Medicare for all. That is a single payer plan. I have not said that I was a single payer supporter."

At the 41 second mark here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_j2QYz6-vk

Obama speaking to the Illinois AFL-CIO, June 30, 2003:

I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. (applause)...And thats 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. But 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, and we have to take back the House.

At the 1 minute mark here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAz0qzes8hI

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[HenryMolaison]

You're right, it is too bad that the President is lying about his former support for single-payer, because single-payer is the only way that we can get ourselves out of this healthcare crisis.