Obamacare: Will he lead us into disaster?

Despite the lessons provided from the failures of a single payer health care system, and despite what the campaign propaganda said, Obama is likely to attempt to install the system he actually believes in regarding health care.

Key point:

"What does single-payer health care have to do with the American election, you ask? 'If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system,' Obama observed last month in New Mexico. The surprise isn’t that the Democratic presidential candidate feels that way—he made similar comments a year earlier to The New Yorker. He was even more open during the 1990s, describing himself outright as a proponent of single-payer health care.

Rather, the surprise is that Obama wasn’t called to task. Americans understand the need for health-care reform. To some groups—academics, union officials, and politicians—single-payer health care looks like a panacea. Back in the heat of the ClintonCare debates of the 1990s, more than 70 congressional Democrats voted for a Canadian-style system. Today, they remain biased in favor of such a system, even if they’re more cautious about advocating it publicly."