Pelosi Admits Obamacare Is Flawed, Calls For Single-Payer ‘Fix’
Just weeks ago, Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) vowed that Obamacare would help her party achieve victory in the midterm elections. But now Pelosi is singing a different tune, suggesting that the law could be improved by switching the Nation to a single–payer system.
The lawmaker told Vox’s Ezra Klein:
I think the Democrats will run on saying that the Affordable Care Act is really important for America’s families. And that we stand ready to improve it as we see how it is implemented. I think that’s a really important message, not to let it be repeal or retain, but to have the Affordable Care Act and improve upon it. I have some of my own suggestions that I couldn’t get through in the first round. So I like that message.
Asked how the law could be improved, she responded:
Of course I wanted it single payer and I wanted a public option, but that not being in the mix, you have to prioritize what you want to get over the finish line, and now lets refine and improve and some of that relates to how it is implemented, so you see how it is implemented.
Many conservatives, including columnists for this publication, have long suspected that some Obamacare supporters actually want the law to fail to make way for a single-payer healthcare system.
In December, Bob Livingston wrote:
The apparently flawed law is doing what its designers intended. It’s blowing up the private health insurance market — which was already a morass of bureaucratic and regulatory argle-bargle and inefficiency — and driving the country, inexorably, toward a single-payer socialist/fascist healthcare system one unConstitutional “regulatory” change at a time (at least 14 of them so far).Central planning progressives, by word and deed, have long expressed their desire for a single-payer redistributive healthcare system. Obamacare has essentially accomplished that, while preserving the insurance companies as “middle men.” Insurance companies bought into the scheme because, rather than having to battle over customers and depend upon individuals to pay their premiums, they preferred the idea of a captive consumer pool and premium payments guaranteed by the Federal Treasury.
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