In 2003, Obama said, "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health-care plan." Obama rather clumsily backed away in his campaign for president. "I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer," he announced in January. "What I said was that if we were starting from scratch " I would probably go with a single-payer system." |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.