Obama took single payer off the table BEFORE negotiations ever began. Secretly. Clandestinely. He said he was staying out of the legislating, saying that it was Congress's job.
Then Obama went and made a secret deal with the pharmaceutical, insurance, hospital industries, the AMA, undercutting all of the Congressional committees working on legislation except one -- Baucus's committee (the Senate Finance committee) which Obama disavowed for months.
When word came out about the deal, the White House Iied it.
Obama took single payer off the table before negotiations ever began. Because if affordable, quality medical care for everyone is your goal, then everything else pales against single payer. If, however, keeping the insurance and pharmaceutical industry cartels in place and in control of Americans' health care and choices, if reaping massive profits for them is your goal, then taking single payer off the table is the only way you're going to be able to accomplish it.
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