> “I don’t think in ideological terms. I never have,” Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. “Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, ‘Loo

> “I don’t think in ideological terms. I never have,” Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. “Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?” — Then-Senator Obama, 2006 So they do talk about it, and it's one of several drag-on-the-economy stealth (useless—one of the categories of the "bullshit" classification, in Graeber's taxonomy) jobs programs we have, because we can't have better-run more-beneficial actual jobs programs since those would be socialist. [EDIT] source of the quote: https://www.thenation.com/article/mr-obama-goes-washington/ https://www.thenation.com/article/mr-obama-goes-washington/