"I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program. 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. 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."
Barack Obama ~2003
Single payer healthcare was a big reason many people voted for him. Unfortunately we never got there.
Don’t forget 700 billion he handed over to the banks after they collapsed under their own mismanagement. Probably helped that Citicorp hand picked his cabinet.
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u/EstablishmentDear469 22h ago
Who the hell ever tried to seriously provide healthcare to the American people.