Reply #13: Did Obama ever say it was during his political run...

[vaberella]

He's said we have to follow a political process in which they have the public finance of health on the table to drive down the prices of health insurance which will lead to the eventual crowding out of people from the private health insurance.

He said if he could do the whole thing over he'd have gone single payer. But he's just looking to put down the frameworks of single payer---ie somethign that will eventually lead to single payer but still provides a public health insurance alternative.