David Brooks..(.yes that David Brooks)...supports Single-Payer.

[Thickasabrick]

Conservative columnist David Brooks expressed support for a system of health care that is most often demonized by the right wing. "I wouldn't mind a single-payer. I prefer it to what we have now," Brooks told ABC's Jake Tapper Sunday.

Brooks support for single-payer comes late in the health care reform debate. Both houses of Congress have passed reform bills which Brooks says he can't support. "I oppose it. It's a close call for me," said Brooks. "My preferred option is to give consumers choice."

In July, Brooks deflected a question about implementing a single-payer system. "There is no way something that big and complex and dynamic can be run out of Washington," he said.

Next time someone calls me "fringe" because I want single payer - well....screw them.

Video at C&L of him saying this:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/david-brooks-prefers-single-payer-status-quo

[yourout]

1. Wow........bielzabub must be looking for some long johns tonight cause hell....

must be an ice box.

[BbeltAtheist]

2. I heard him on NPR

yesterday and he gave me an impression of a conservative very very far from the type portrayed by Palin and her kind.

[amborin]

3. saw a joke saying he or family must have had some claim denied

[FrenchieCat]

4. Might as well have him put a worm on that bait.......

Cause you don't come out for single Payer, ONLY AFTER two major bills on health that don't include a single payer makes it out of both houses for the first time in 100 years.

DOH!

[Captain Hilts]

5. People that support the free market should support single payer. It enhances labor mobility. nt

[blondeatlast]

6. Love your timing, Brooksie.

:eyes:

[eridani]

7. There used to be a Republicans for Single Payer website

--but the domain name got hijacked.

[valerief]

8. I used to enjoy Brooks on the Dean Martin roasts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYusPRre07k&feature=related

[JVS]

9. Now that that's clearly not going to happen, good old fuckface decides it's safe to consider it ok.

[mmonk]

10. They say we who would rather have a single payer system

are ideological and of course looney left. But I think they are the ideological ones hanging on to the current mess. Brooks shows the flaws of that argument.

[inthebrain]

11. Yeah, voice support for it AFTER it's already dead.

Kinda like the Republicans who came out against the Iraq war when it was popular to do so.

[Better Believe It]

12. It would have been far more difficult for Democratic "centrists" and Republicans to oppose than the

health insurance industry/big Pharma health bill.