Obamacare Architect Now Backs Single Payer

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Former Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), a fiscal moderate who, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, presided over the passage of the Affordable Care Act, expressed his support on Thursday for the creation of a single-payer health care system.

“My personal view is we’ve got to start looking at single-payer,” Baucus said in remarks at Montana State University, according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. “I think we should have hearings... We’re getting there. It’s going to happen.”

Single-payer health care, in which the federal government insures all citizens through one large program, is a model for universal coverage in many developed countries, including Canada, France and Australia. But it has long been viewed as a pipe dream in the United States, where a plurality of people receive coverage from their employers.

Baucus was the subject of progressive frustration for his stewardship of the ACA, also known as Obamacare. Critics argued that he held the bill in committee far too long in hopes of winning the support of moderate Republicans who did not end up voting for the final bill. The lengthy negotiation period he initiated gave Republicans much-needed time to mobilize opposition to reform, according to Baucus’ detractors.

In September 2009, Baucus also voted against two amendments that would have created a public health insurance option on the Obamacare individual insurance exchanges.

Baucus kept single-payer off the table during the development of Obamacare because he believed the country was not ready for it at the time, he told NBC News on Friday. 

“I just think the time has come,” Baucus said. “Back in ’09, we were not ready to address it. It would never have passed. Here we are nine years later, I think it’s time to hopefully have a very serious good faith look at it.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/max-baucus-single-payer_us_59b2f8f7e4b0354e4411f129

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In the next ten years, I think we will be a Single Payer nation! There is so much momentum for Single Payer, it is going to finally happen here!

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I read it as "Sinners Prayer"  

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37 minutes ago, August Blue said:

I read it as "Sinners Prayer"  

bish,me too, the f**k

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I, I wish I could back a single payer

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I guess not so "pie in the sky" anymore, huh? Lol 

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5 hours ago, Gaga Monster said:

In the next ten years, I think we will be a Single Payer nation! There is so much momentum for Single Payer, it is going to finally happen here!

Its a great thing! Healthcare is not something where costs should have to factor in a margin for profit!