“I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program... That’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we’ve got to take back the White House, we’ve got to take back the Senate, and we’ve got to take back the House.”
Senator Barack Obama 2003
“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. If the program were in place in Massachusetts in 1999, it would have reduced administrative costs by $2.5 million. We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.”
Donald Trump 2000
“Despite the Supreme Court’s repeated attempts to prop it up...”
Cruz was asked why Roberts supported changing the meaning of that phrase in the legislation. Cruz said he figured Roberts wanted to keep the Supreme Court out of politics. That is, Roberts believes if the law is to be changed, it is up to the Legislature to do it, not the Supreme Court.
Fine, but why then didn’t the Supreme Court say exactly that in their decision, letting the law stand as-is and passing the ball to the Legislature to make changes.