Tuesday, August 4, 2009

What He Really Wants

President Barack H. Obama, speaking in 2003 at an AFL-CIO Civil, Human, and Women's Rights Conference, about what he would prefer in a health plan:
I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s 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.
Please forgive the lengthy quote. You can find the video of this speech and the rest of the text of the quote here on Breitbart.tv. The quote doesn't make clear the identity of the "Jim" he mentions, presumably the prior speaker.

Hat tip to Matt Drudge for the link to the site.