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Barack Obama: “If I were starting from scratch, if we didn't have a system in which employers typically provided health care, I would…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2008
If I were starting from scratch, if we didn't have a system in which employers typically provided health care, I would probably go with a single payer system.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Barack Obama clarifies his position on health care and the idea of a single payer system.

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