Senate, when he said he supported a single-payer system.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2009] Reference

P. BAUER: I suspect we really need a single-payer system.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2009] Reference

(END VIDEO CLIP) BLITZER: He wants a single-payer option.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009] Reference

The latest indictment of Britain's single-payer health care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feeding the NHS, Starving its Patients] Reference

A single-payer health care plan, a universal health care plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Clinton-Obama Slugfest] Reference

SEBELIUS: There -- there definitely are some single-payer advocates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 11, 2009] Reference

The American way is not single-payer, government-controlled anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2007] Reference

Obama: I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Clinton-Obama Slugfest] Reference

Obama denied that he had ever said he would work to get a single-payer plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Clinton-Obama Slugfest] Reference

That sounds to us like someone who's pretty gung-ho for a single-payer plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Clinton-Obama Slugfest] Reference

A single-payer health-care system like Canada's would avoid that disruption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctors Under The Knife] Reference

And whatever we will get this year -- and I was for a single-payer, but I-- I know reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2009] Reference

He had his liberals who wanted a single-payer plan and said, you're not being liberal enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2009] Reference

And that is to have a universal, single-payer, not-for-profit health care system, Medicare for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2007] Reference

We know that this is a long way from having what they want, which is basically a single-payer system.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009] Reference

And of course, Larry, I'm leading the effort for universal, single-payer, not-for-profit health care.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2004] Reference

Obama's health care sans the public option and "single-payer" is like your ninety-five year old grandmother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Anderson: All Hat, No Cattle] Reference

But that's how single-payer works, too: It puts health-care spending into a single budget and caps its increase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The virtues of Ryan's roadmap] Reference

But in fact he gave a speech in 2003 saying, "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health care program.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Clinton-Obama Slugfest] Reference

Another is that it should move us toward a single-payer system, akin to the one that saves so much money for Canada.    From Wordnik.com.  [The health-care reform bill's empty promises, and their curious fullness] Reference

Potential solutions are at least as controversial in America's kitchens as the single-payer plan is on Capitol Hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Fat Friends Bad for Each Other?] Reference

That was five years ago, however, and recently, Obama has said he'd favor single-payer only if "starting from scratch.".    From Wordnik.com.  [FactChecking Debate No. 3] Reference

A single-payer system, similar to the Canadian model, would call for a government-run health plan covering all Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health-care reform: As opponents delay, proponents call for a vote on reform] Reference

He has said a government - run single-payer system, Anderson, would drive insurers out of the market and limit competition.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2009] Reference

If he had come out of the box and really fought for what he wanted, a single-payer system, things might have been different.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009] Reference

On health care, for example, a single-payer system is too far to the left, while an unregulated market is too far to the right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moderation Is No Virtue] Reference

Romanoff also campaigned in support of single-payer health care and hit Bennet for refusing to push a public health care option.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Sirota: CO-SEN: What DC Will Say vs. What the CO Election Will Actually Mean] Reference

As time went on, the last four or so years, he said he was for single-payer in principle, then he was for universal health care.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Clinton-Obama Slugfest] Reference

And one of those options is that you could buy into a plan that is very much like Medicare which is, in fact, a single-payer plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2008] Reference

A better choice would be slimming down our immense private health-care bureaucracy and switching to a simpler single-payer system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paying Up For Quality Care] Reference

You see, when this usually gets trotted out, we hear that the left is too insistent that we have a single-payer health care system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Demeans His Own Supporters] Reference

McCain claimed that Obama's real "object" is a government-run, single-payer health insurance system like those in Canada or England.    From Wordnik.com.  [FactChecking Debate No. 3] Reference

Obama's plan is not a single-payer system, which would be one in which everyone has health care provided and paid for by the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [FactChecking Debate No. 3] Reference

And as president of the United States, I'll lead this country to create a system where we have universal single-payer health care for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2004] Reference

He says favors the full deal: a "single-payer," government-run health-care system for all, similar to what they have in Canada and Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eyes on the Real Prize] Reference