He also said single payer cannot work in the US. But no one expects honesty from Trump haters.
If you believe everything Bill Clinton says, good for you. Otoh, his track record for honesty and accuracy isn’t all that.
“We must have universal health care I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one..The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. There are fewer medical lawsuits, less loss of labor to sickness, and lower costs to companies paying for the medical care of their employees. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan.”
That doesn’t sound like a man who thinks it wouldn’t work here...
And, even if he did, “it works there, but wouldn’t here” is economic balderdash. The self-defeating incentives and costs created by single-payer universal health care are inherent to the system, not the location where it is implemented. In the long run, it doesn’t work—can’t work—anywhere.
He said single payer wouldn’t work now. Allowing that when he spoke in praise of it in the past it was a good idea.
Who knows, he might decide it’s a good idea again?
He has no principle in play here. That’s the danger. He’s not guided by anything except what he thinks is right.