Reply #62: Never promised, but here's what he said that has always given me hope:

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from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/us/politics/05text-ddebate.html?pagewanted=all

"I have been entirely consistent in my position on health care. What I said, and I have said on the campaign trail this time, is if I were designing a system from scratch, I would set up a single-payer system because we could gain enormous efficiencies from it. Our medical care costs twice as much per capita as any other advanced nation."

On edit: This was during a debate, where Hillary tried, with some justification, to cast him as a flip-flopper on the issue. I felt his response was appropriate.