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2007 video of Obama discussing America transitioning to single payer system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9znbdNMTsmE ^

Posted on 10/25/2016 6:44:17 PM PDT by Mel48

This video has not been widely seen. Obama discusses how America can be transitioned into a single payer system. We are entering the early stages of the transition period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9znbdNMTsmE


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: commiecare; obama; obamacare; quentinyoung; singlepayer; universalhealthcare

1 posted on 10/25/2016 6:44:17 PM PDT by Mel48
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To: Mel48

Barney Frank saying this was a step to single payer (gov’t healthcare):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLm9t9j-qKM


2 posted on 10/25/2016 6:49:27 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Mel48
Obama in 2003:

“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program” (applause)

“I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody.

And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out.

A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan.

And that’s what I’d like to see.

But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately.

Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”

Obama speaking to the Illinois AFL-CIO, June 30, 2003

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/june/barack_obama_on_sing.php
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How Obamacare Actually Paves the Way Toward Single Payer

By Noam Scheiber
January 5, 2014

https://newrepublic.com/article/116105/obamacare-will-lead-single-payer-michael-moore

3 posted on 10/25/2016 6:50:01 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!)
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To: Mel48

Hillary wants ObamaCare to unravel:

https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/wikileaks-hillary-wants-obamacare-unravel/

Rates go up ==> crisis!

Solution = single payer.

Get people desperate and they’ll be open to drastic change. That’s the Obama formula. MSM fuels the perceived crisis. Politicians line up to ‘solve the problem.’


4 posted on 10/25/2016 6:50:58 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Mel48
I really don't need more evidence...

I know what the end-game is.

5 posted on 10/25/2016 6:51:31 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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To: Mel48; All

Obama's Single Payer Guru, Quentin Young

(he died in 2015)...

Dr. Quentin Young, Longtime Obama Confidante and Physician to MLK [Martin Luther King]--source: Democracy Now

FROM "THE OBAMA FILE"...
RE: QUENTIN YOUNG

The primary figure who delivered Obama to the single-payer camp was Quentin Young, an 86-year-old retired physician who was a longtime friend and neighbor of Obama in Chicago.  Young joined the Young Communist League as a teenager in the late 1930s.  From the mid-1940s through the mid-1970s, he was closely associated with the Communist Party.  In October 1968 he was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was probing the extent of his knowledge about the riots that had erupted at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago two months earlier.  The Committee accused Young of belonging to the Bethune Club, an organization for communist doctors; the group was named after Norman Bethune, a communist physician who devoted his services to the totalitarian regime of Mao Zedong

Dr. Young was active in the radical movements of the Sixties and Seventies and led a small delegation to Communist North Vietnam in 1972.  In the late 1970s, Young became associated with a Marxist organization known as the New American Movement, which was initially convened by Michael Lerner, an America-hating radical who counseled young people to explore the use of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs as portals to a greater comprehension of socialist principles.

In 1980 Young founded the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, a single-payer lobby group whose Board of Directors he chairs to this day.  In 1982 Young helped establish the Democratic Socialists of America, which, as the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, asserts that "many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed."  In 1987 Young co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), a single-payer advocacy organization where he currently serves as national coordinator. In PNHP’s view, government-run healthcare "should be financed by truly progressive taxation."

In 1995 Young attended the now-famous meeting at the Hyde Park home of former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, where Barack Obama was first introduced to influential locals as the hand-picked successor to Alice Palmer, a pro-Soviet radical who planned to vacate her Illinois State Senate seat in pursuit of a higher elected office.  Young quickly became a friend and political ally of Obama, teaching the latter about the merits of single-payer healthcare. 

In a 2009 interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Young reminisced about the germination of his ideological kinship with the young Obama:

"Barack Obama, in those early days [as a state senator] -- influenced, I hope, by me and others -- categorically said single payer was the best way, and he would inaugurate it if he could get the support, meaning [Democratic] majorities in both houses, which he’s got, and the presidency, which he’s got.  And he said that on more than one occasion…."

Another noteworthy influence on Obama’s views vis à vis healthcare has been Dr. Peter Orris, who co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program with Quentin Young.  The son of a Communist Party member, Orris in the 1960s was a leader of Harvard University’s campus chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, the New Leftist organization that aspired to overthrow America’s democratic institutions and remake the nation’s government in a Marxist image.  He later joined the Communist Party (CP) for more than two decades, before ultimately shifting his allegiance to the CP splinter group, Committees of Correspondence, where he remains a prominent figure to this day.

http://www.theobamafile.com/_associates/QuentinYoung.htm
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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org

PROFILE: Quentin Young

An admirer of Fidel Castro, Young is proud that two of his children traveled to Cuba as members of the Venceremos Brigades to cut sugar cane and pick oranges. (The Venceremos Brigades were organized by Castro's Cuban intelligence agency, which trained "brigadistas" in guerrilla warfare techniques, including the use of arms and explosives.)

*Longtime supporter of communist causes
* Was active in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s
* Helped establish the Democratic Socialists of America
* Co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program, an advocacy organization that lobbies on behalf of a single-payer, government-run healthcare system
* Friend and supporter of Barack Obama
* Longtime friend of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers

Lots more at the link:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2439

6 posted on 10/25/2016 6:52:49 PM PDT by ETL (Trump-PENCE 2016!!)
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To: ETL

Any bill congress puts up should first be applied to congress for a period of 5 years.


7 posted on 10/25/2016 8:00:31 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Election 2016 - Freedom or Slavery)
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To: ETL
Quentin Young, an 86-year-old retired physician who was a longtime friend and neighbor of Obama in Chicago. Young joined the Young Communist League as a teenager in the late 1930s

Sounds like Dr Young is a candidate for the legendary UK National Health System; the "Liverpool Pathway"

A short liquid free ride from ward to morgue.

8 posted on 10/25/2016 8:03:08 PM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: Osage Orange

Well, Rush wasn’t so resistant to listening to it today on his show. We have a mutual friend.


9 posted on 10/26/2016 12:37:29 PM PDT by Mel48
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