Monday, August 3, 2009

Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will ‘Eliminate’ Private Insurance



Obama explains that his plans for health care reform would eventually lead to the elimination of private health insurance companies in favor of a single-payer system.

"I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process, I can envision in a decade out, or fifteen years out, or twenty years out," Obama says in a 2007 interview with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The video montage then follows with a 2003 speech given by Obama at an AFL-CIO conference on "Civil, Human, and Women's Rights" in which he says, "I am a proponent of single-payer universal health care plans."