Obama wasn't arguing for anything, he was just explaining the politics of why single payer would be difficult to get through Congress. (For better or worse, Ob

Obama wasn't arguing for anything, he was just explaining the politics of why single payer would be difficult to get through Congress. (For better or worse, Obama was famously disconnected from writing "Obamacare" and left it to Congress.) As an explanation of the politics, Obama's quote—"That represents one million, two million, three million jobs"—is exactly right. Sen. Lieberman (Ind, Connecticut) killed the public option, allegedly because of the importance of the insurance industry to Connecticut.