John Edwards in the NYT: I'm going to take single payer "right through the front door."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/us/politics/25edwards.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1201287694-eSblus/ojEfW91Zrj1idCA

"American health consumers will decide which works best," Mr. Edwards said Wednesday afternoon while traveling through South Carolina on his campaign bus. "It could continue to be divided. But it could go in one direction or the other, and one of the directions is obviously government or single-payer. And I’m not opposed to that."

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Republican candidates and policy strategists have raised the specter of "socialized medicine" and depicted the Democratic plans as a back-door route to a so-called single-payer government system. Mr. Edwards brushed off that critique. "There is nothing back-door about it," he said. "It’s right through the front door. We’re going to let America decide what health care system works for them."...