As a Senator campaigning for the Presidency, Obama called himself “a proponent of a single payer universal health care program.”
Even after being elected Obama admitted, in passing, that single payer would be the only way to insure every U.S. citizen – but moved instead to strike (not-so-secret) deals with big PhRMA and completely drop any challenge to the for-profit, private health “care” system.
This is what makes his recent State of the Union request for “a better approach” to healthcare reform so completely disingenuous:
OBAMA: “If anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen medicare for seniors and stop insurance company abuses, let me know. Let me know. I’m eager to see it.”
Pediatrician Dr. Margaret Flowers took Obama at his word and went to the White House the next day with a letter urging the revival of the idea of a “single payer” or a “medicare-for-all” system.
The Secret Service turned her away, but she tried to respond to the president’s request again the next day in Baltimore where she was arrested for trespassing.
Congratulations, Dr. Flowers, you are The World’s Got Problems Undersung HeroTM of the Month!
Hear her interviewed by Bill Moyers here.
