Candidate Barack Obama showed himself to be a patient man, and he believed that time was on his side.
“If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system,” the man who would be president told voters in New Hampshire about health care in 2008. However, rather than radically upend our health system in one power grab, the future president said that he would work to change our existing system, bit by bit. After enough changes were in place, the government may “decide that there are other ways for us to provide care more effectively.” That would mean single-payer, socialized medicine.
