Max Baucus, the former Democratic senator from Montana and key legislator behind Obamacare, said it’s time for the U.S. to consider a government-run, single-payer healthcare system.

“My personal view is we’ve got to start looking at single-payer,” Baucus said Thursday night at Montana State University, according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. “I think we should have hearings. … We’re getting there. It’s going to happen.”