Obama in 2007: Would Like to Eliminate Private Health Insurance

I'll say this much for Obama - he is one of the best liars in American history. In 2007, he was very forthright about his desire to eliminate private health care insurance altogether:

I would hope that we could set up a system that allows those who can go through their employer to access a federal system or a state pool of some sort. But I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process.

...I think that if we get a good public option, it could lead to single payer, and that's the best way to reach single payer.

(For those that aren't entirely clear: "single payer" = communist, government control.)