According to the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius, 1 in 3 Americans participate in the nation's Single Payer programs: Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE, SHIP, CHIP.

The companion component to Rep. Conyers' Single Payer Bill is the Single Audit, which has been effectively removed from all discussions on health care reform.

Until the societal benefits of improved quality and delivery of services are addressed, the burdens of fraud, waste and abuse will continue to weigh heavily upon those who pay private insurance.

Dems desire for government run health care exposed

Throughout the lopsided debate that preceded the passage of Obamacare, the Democrats made one thing perfectly clear: Obama's health care reforms were NOT a step on the way to a single-payer system.
The American people were told, repeatedly, that no one wanted government run medicine. Democrats were adamant that they were not interested in having a federal bureaucracy get between patients and their doctors. Even those Congressmen furthest left of center assured the public that a single-payer system was not the goal.

Yet, beneath the surface, there was an obvious ruse. Despite assurances that the cost of coverage would go down, it quickly became clear that the mandates contained within Obamacare would cause insurance rates to skyrocket. Critics claimed that the end result was clear. Corporations would drop their insurance benefits, insurers would go out of business, and the public would be trapped, paying 100 percent of their medical bills themselves. Since the cost of care will continue to increase, the government would be "forced" to step in and offer a single-payer, tax-based, solution. In short, Obama's reform bill was just the first step in a plan for a total health care takeover.

Monday morning, at a National Press Club newsmakers program, Conyers confirmed what many have argued all along.

"Had that bill failed," Conyers said, "it would have taken us another decade or longer to get single payer. We view the health care reform bill as a platform on which we are now able to move forward."

Later, when pressed by a reporter from CNS News, Conyers added "if we didn't have this, health care, universal health care, would be an even more difficult legislative objective."

Conyers has long been a supporter of a universal, government controlled, health care, and has proposed a number of bills designed to create such a system. His most recent attempt began three years ago, and was re-introduced this past February. Dubbed "The Improved and Expanded Medicare for All Act," H.R.676, would establish a 100 percent taxpayer funded, non-profit, single payer system.

In the bill, Conyers claims that "The time has come for deep systemic change in our health care system, and a large dose of common sense."

Perhaps he'll find that common sense among the bill's co-sponsors. Reading like a who's who of pro Universal Health care politicians, the list includes Barney Frank, who has already claimed that Obamacare would be a first step toward single payer, only to retract the statements when admitting how unpopular such a system would be. Other notables include Democrat Dennis Kucinich, who argued favorably that a Republican repeal of Obamacare would open the door to a massive single payer takeover, and Jesse Jackson Jr., who has argued that government run health care is a civil right which should be added to the Constitution.

In short, those who want single payer believe that Obamacare will lead to completely government run health care and they're laying the groundwork for the takeover. John Conyers has now admitted as much, and has authored the plan they hope to implement.