We ARE the grass roots, and can help ACA succeed

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25. No, Obama never campaigned on single payer. Also, many Democrats such as myself

would favor single payer, but I also know the likelihood of getting it passed. If you think the folks on the right have given us a hard time about this bill and capping profit of insurance companies, how do you think they'd do if we tried to eliminate the insurance companies completely?
Also, the folks on the right are already screaming that the ACA is a way of getting to single payer and freaking everyone out.

From FactCheck.Org http://www.factcheck.org/2009/06/campaigning-on-single-payer/

On “Meet the Press” on June 28, former presidential candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney falsely claimed that President Obama had called for a “single-payer” health care system on the campaign trail:
Romney: President Obama, when he was campaigning, said he wanted a single-payer system.

We debunked this falsehood when Sen. John McCain said it during the third presidential debate. McCain claimed that “as he said, his object is a single payer system.” But as a presidential candidate, Obama didn’t say that at all. And the plan he proposed wasn’t a single-payer system, one in which everyone is covered by health insurance through the government. As we said in our Oct. 16 article, Obama said at a town hall meeting in Albuquerque last summer that a single payer system would “probably” be his first choice “if” he were “designing a system from scratch.” But instead, he said, his “attitude is let’s build up the system we got, let’s make it more efficient, we may be over time – as we make the system more efficient and everybody’s covered – decide that there are other ways for us to provide care more effectively.”
Six years ago, Obama did say at an AFL-CIO forum that he was “a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.” But that was 2003, and that’s not what he campaigned on as a presidential candidate. He has recently taken heat from single-payer advocates for not including them in discussions about overhauling the health care system.