And then he got elected. You know, the trouble with politicians is that they get elected. Well, Hillary was then assigned the job of heading up the healthcare task force. I participated on this task force. And some of the early discussions went like this.
Single payer makes the most sense.
But it is not politically viable. And in that sense they were right. But if this president had endorsed single payer, and had the entire trade union leadership endorsed it which, by the way, they didn't we could have won healthcare reform. But single payer was doomed when this president decided to capitulate to the insurance industry. He decided to keep them in the mix and he tried to pull the wool over everybody's eyes Q to make it look warm and fuzzy and wonderful when you can't make that hog look good.