Reminder: Obama, Frank, and Schakowsky on single payer

[fossten]

For all the propagandists who keep bleating that the Senate bill doesn't have single payer, let's just revisit this video so we can ascertain the true intentions of those in Washington who are lying to us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ-6ebku3_E&feature=player_embedded

 

[Calabrio]

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SEN. TOM HARKIN, D-IOWA: As I said before, this bill is not complete. I've used the analogy of a starter home in which we can add additions and enhancements as we go into the future. But like every right that we've ever passed the American people, we revisit it later on to enhance and build on those rights and we will do that here surely.

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: You know we're going to control the insurance companies.

CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: Because of some of the, you know, rules about reconciliation, that you actually have to include the student aid bill with the health care bill. This was the plan all along. When the budget came out for 2010, instructions were given for reconciliation for both health care and for student loans.

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF.: We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Now, you keep on repeating the notion that it's one-sixth of the economy. Yes, it's one-sixth of the economy, but we're not transforming one-sixth of the economy all in one fell swoop.

THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: It is my belief that not just politically but also economically, it's better for us to start getting a system in place — a universal health care system — signed into law by the end of my first term as president and build off that system to further — to make it more rational — by the way, Canada did not start off immediately with a single-payer system. They had a similar transition step.

Transitioning a system is a very difficult and costly and lengthy enterprise. It's not like you could turn on a switch and you go from one system to another.

 

[foxpaws]

THEN-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: It is my belief that not just politically but also economically, it's better for us to start getting a system in place — a universal health care system — signed into law by the end of my first term as president and build off that system to further — to make it more rational — by the way, Canada did not start off immediately with a single-payer system. They had a similar transition step.

Transitioning a system is a very difficult and costly and lengthy enterprise. It's not like you could turn on a switch and you go from one system to another.

Cal - where is the last quote from? Do you have source on it?

 

[Calabrio]

Cal - where is the last quote from? Do you have source on it?

Are you disputing it?

 

[foxpaws]

I just don't remember hearing it or reading it during the election. I would like to see election time frame source on it.

 

[Calabrio]

I just don't remember hearing it or reading it during the election. I would like to see election time frame source on it.

That's because it was not available during the election. The main stream journalists acted as cheerleaders for Obama.
The quote is from 2007.

Here's your hero Glenn Beck presenting the audio clip:

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/38192/

that particularly clip can be heard at about 5:57.
All of the quotes I just provided can be heard in that video as well.

...hmmm.... I wonder why the Democrats and Foxpaws want to discredit and destroy him so badly......

 

[fossten]

Here's a link for you, fox...