Cenk Uygur
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Obama's Single Payer Stance Proves He's Not A...
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4:48Now Playing"In August 2009, the president traveled to Montana to deliver a speech touting health care reform. His efforts to transform the health care system were then under siege from the tea party movement, which warned of a European-style "government takeover" of health care and spread myths of federal "death panels" to execute the infirm. So Schweitzer raised a few eyebrows when he introduced Obama by declaring his unabashed love for Canada's government-run health care program.
"Did you know that, just 300 miles north of here, did you know they offered universal health care 62 years ago?" he said. He praised Tommy Douglas, father of the country's health program, who, he noted, was named in a TV poll the greatest Canadian in history -- nine spots ahead of Wayne Gretzky.
Minutes later, the president used his own speech to declare, "I'm not in favor of a Canadian system, I'm not in favor of a British system, I'm not in favor of a French system. What we've said is, let's find a uniquely American system."
This wasn't the only source of tension between the two men."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Benjy Sarlin:
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