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...click deeply enough into Obama's website, you can find position papers covering enough issues to fill Congressional Quarterly. He has a specific strategy to refocus the military on Afghanistan. He backs a single-payer health-care system. But it wasn't some 10-point plan that turned Obama into a politician who fills arenas while others speak in school cafeterias. He knows that detailed policies tend to drive people apart rather than bring them together. People arrived to hear him out of fervor or mere curiosity, and they stayed for the sense of possibility. They heard rhetoric like this...
...need a single-payer universal health insurance system such as those that other civilized nations have. What stands in the way of it is the power of the private health insurance companies. Everybody is afraid of them. Clinton, Obama, McCain. Nobody is willing to say, "They're going to have to get out of the way because they're not doing a good job." I mean, this country wasn't afraid to take on the Soviet Union or England, in the beginning, or Saddam Hussein. Why can't we take on our own private health insurance companies...
...former physician, what are your thoughts on the Democratic candidates' health-care plans vs. a single-payer system? Megan Prouty CARROLLTON, TEXAS...
...think while someday we may end up with a single-payer system, it's clear that we're not going to do it all at once, so I think both candidates' health-care plans are a big step forward. Certainly compared to Senator [John] McCain, who represents a big step backward...
...drawn the two parties into more and more of a convergence in corporate power issues. And that's reflected in the issues that draw a bright line between my candidacy and that of McCain, [Illinois Senator Barack] Obama, [and New York Senator Hillary] Clinton. They're all against single payer [government health insurance]. They're all against a media crackdown of corporate crime, power and abuse. They're all against cutting the bloated wasteful military budget that your magazine has disclosed again and again. They're all against changing the course in the Middle East. They're all against open...