Senator Barack Obama and The Single-Payer Health Care System

Senator Barack Obama and The Single-Payer Health Care System in Politics and Legislation

Today, Senator Barack Obama was talking health care policy on the campaign trail in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

During a town-hall meeting, according to a Wall Street Journal blog, Senator Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said he would support a single-payer health care system in the U.S. if he could start new.

“If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer [health care] system,” said Senator Obama.

Such a system would get rid of private insurance companies and individual health insurance plans and the government would exclusively run all health care services.

It would bring universal health care to the U.S., which is a goal many Democratic lawmakers share.

Of course, Senator Obama knows he can’t start from scratch and our current health care system probably couldn’t be changed to single-payer any time soon.

“[M]y attitude is let’s build up the system we got, let’s make it more efficient, we may over time, as we make the system more efficient and everybody’s covered, decide that there are other ways for us to provide care more effectively,” explained the Illinois Senator.

So even though we can’t make the move to a single-payer health care system now, should we in the future?

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