Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid recently made clear what conservatives have long suspected: that he and other Democrats, including the president and key officials, see ObamaCare as a stepping stone to single payer, government-controlled health care.
Reid told a television interviewer, "Don't think we didn't have a tremendous number of people who wanted single payer system."
But, he added, it didn't happen because "you know, we have to get the majority of the votes and we weren't able to do that."
A single payer system would involve the government paying for all health care costs and abolishing the private insurance market.
Reid’s comments have revived discussion of the prospect of a government-run health care system. Despite the problems it has been encountering recently, ObamaCare is only partially run by the government.
In May 2009, the president said, "I think that the idea of moving towards a single payer system could very well make sense."
As far back as 2007, Kathleen Sebelius -- who went on to become his Health and Human Services Secretary, who oversees implementation of ObamaCare -- said, "I'm all for a single payer system eventually. I think that (what) we have to do is work with what we've got until we close the gap."
What do people actually mean by single payer?
“What they really mean is putting everybody under one big government insurance program and almost always, on the left, they're talking about Medicare," says John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas.
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