Republican Congressman: 'I Would Support Single-Payer' (VIDEO)

Wow that gets your attention! A rethuglican who actually would say they support single payer!

This guy is going to retract this asap because having an honest debate about what is fair and decent with the business of healthcare is NOT what the rethuglican leadership will allow. If rethuglicans would have an honest debate about how to get healthcare to all Americans at a reasonable cost we would have single payer in a heartbeat. The right wingers in Canada would never try to get our fukkd up profit system installed there because who is stupid enough to pay twice as much for far less coverage? Idiots? Americans?

I am looking at a dead man!

Isn't this guy retiring? Perhaps he can get away with saying this because he is on his way out.

I doubt that he'll stand by his word here. He'll be marched in front of a camera to give a Soviet-style recantation after the Republican leadership works him over.

Apparently I am suffering from an acid flashback of the hit of Purple Haze I took back in '71. I believe that the story above states that this republican is in favor of single payer, but that is not possible, so it must be an acid flashback.

Well, it probably is phony.

But...when you think about it...it would have been much harder to demogauge "Medicare For All" only because the public broadly supports "Medicare" and doesn't think of it as "government-run health care."

A blatant attempt to divide and conquer by reopening the Universal Healthcare/Medicare for all/Public Option debate right at the very moment the Democrats are going to pass this bill.

"Follow me, folks, and get everything you want. See the bright, shiny object? That's right keep staring at it kiddies, and follow me. Now you don't want that nasty, weak, watered down Democrat bill, do you? No, of course not..."

Scumbag.

Teabaggers! Get the pitchforks!!!

Yeah, sure this guy supports single payer. This is the same idiot that used his staffer's baby as a prop on the House floor back in November whilst railing against the evils of "government-care".

remember?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUxWTEnW8Bk

Please, he probably did some polling, found out that his electorate liked a single payer system, and now wants to support it in name only so that he doesn't face an irate electorate come November. A total tool.

Don't get all excited folks, I'm sure he's already been beaten with boners big orange stick. He'll be walking this back in the days to come, or they will keep him off the teevee machine until people forget this unfortunate little slip.

Shadegg is lying of course, but Shuster is incredible! It was the best thing on this morning and trust me I was looking hard to watch something else, anything else, trying to simply break myself away from the news without having to turn on a judge show or Sabrina the Teenaged Witch!
I bow down to you David Shuster. That was simply awesome.

This is great news! For Republicans!

I fully expect Senator Shadegg to approach Majority Leader Reid and offer to vote for cloture *but only if the bill includes a public option*.

I happen to part company on a few things with Shadegg though. As noted in the link Shadegg equates single payer to, "...full on Russian gulag, Soviet-style gulag health care" -- which he came out in favor of today. For myself, I'd prefer Medicare for All *without* the gulag, but to each his own.

You lie!

When a Republican has his mouth open....

This is brilliant politics. All the Republicans now come out in favor of a public option, which means back to the drawing board. Then when it's time to vote months from now, revert to 'health care reform is socialism', the corporate media nodding along all the while, and ride it to the election with millions of old white people going to the polls to prevent socialism from destroying Social Security.

You're looking at a preview of this fall's discussion of health care reform. The Republicans will decry the individual mandate, and how it just plays into the hands of the insurance companies. They'll be right about that, and since this theme fits in with their supposed devotion to the free markets, it will play well.

The Democrats are going to lose big if they pass this bill. It's like they hate having a majority.

he nailed it a mandate with no public option and more importantly no enforcement means the scum in the senate did their job and more private companies get BILLIONS more tax dollars. What a bunch of scum, hopefully al queda drops a plane on the senate!

He's for the public option.....and pigs fly!

This isn't the first time Shadegg speaks sense on health care. Glennzilla caught him a few weeks ago speaking up for a public option. Evidently there's (at least) one Republican with brains and a conscience. Now I hear from you-all he's retiring. Still, what he says, stands.