COMMENTARY

Obama: ‘There Are Countries Where a Single-Payer System Works Pretty Well’
By Terence P. Jeffrey

President Obama told the American Medical Association on Monday that he thinks single-payer health care systems—socialized medicine—work “pretty well” in other countries, but that he does not want to create such a system here because he wants to “build on our traditions.” In fact, the predictable endgame of the health care plan Obama is trying to rush through Congress this summer is socialized medicine. Obama is paving a one-way street to socialized medicine while expressly denying he is doing so—and while accusing those who point out what he is doing of being untruthful. MORE....