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Kathleen Sebelius, 2009: Obamacare ‘is not a trick. This is not single-payer.’

By Joel Gehrke
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Kathleen Sebelius, 2009: Obamacare ‘is not a trick. This is not single-payer.’

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., confirmed that he regards Obamacare as a bridge to a single-payer health care plan, contrary to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ assurances that the law would never lead to such a program.

“This is not a trick. This is not single-payer,” Sebelius told NPR in 2009 in response to Mitt Romney’s claim that the proposed bill was a “Trojan horse” for single-payer health care.

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