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Matthews leads Sen. Gregg: "It sounds like you suspect" Obama's "real purpose" is enacting single payer

August 04, 2009 9:23 pm ET

From the August 4 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews:

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Previously:

CNN's Bash let Boehner advance health care reform falsehoods

Fox's Henneberg falsely claimed Democrats in White House "want government-run health-care programs"

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    • Author by Lane (August 04, 2009 9:46 pm ET)
         
      Whoa whoa whoa - did he just say DemocratIC party?

      When will FOX label him a Obama-loving traitor?
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    • Author by Commonman (August 04, 2009 9:54 pm ET)
         
      So what do you make of the statements below?
      Sounds more like the truth than a "falsehood" to me


      http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/08/04/obama_2003_i_want_a_single_payer_health_care_plan.html

      "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its gross national product on health care, cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that's what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. That's what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we've got to take back the White House, we've got to take back the Senate, and we've got to take back the House." Barak Obama 2003

      http://www.huliq.com/7109/84430/congress-will-vote-single-payer-health-care-plan

      "Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she would allow a floor vote later this year on a single payer health care option after Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY, agreed to remove a proposed amendment for inclusion in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s version of a healthcare reform bill."

      "Prior to the committee’s vote, Weiner spoke passionately about why he believed a single payer health care option would be superior plan for American Healthcare Reform. Single payer is a term used to describe the means by which a universal health care system would be financed
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    • Author by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (August 04, 2009 9:55 pm ET)
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      Why is Judd Gregg's opinion about anything relevant? Your party lost, Judd; just shut up and go away...
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      • Author by snoopy (August 04, 2009 10:21 pm ET)
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        Agreed. Reid? Nuclear option. Learn it. Love it. And most importantly, do unto reichpublicans as reichpublicans did unto you...
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    • Author by dmhack (August 04, 2009 10:31 pm ET)
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      Obama must thank his lucky stars every day that this wingnut didn't accept his offer. Talk about dodging a bullet.
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