Conyers Admits the Truth About Obamacare

By Nicholas Ballasy

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told CNSNews.com today that the health-care law that President Barack Obama signed last March is a "platform" for a building single-payer health care system in the U.S.

During a newsmakers program at the National Press Club on Monday, Conyers said that after discussing the issue with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D.-Ohio) he voted for the health-care law because he saw it as a necessary "platform" for building toward a single-payer health-care system in the United States.

Speaking with CNSNews.com after the event at the National Press Club, Conyers said, "What we're trying to do is insure everybody, right? We're trying to insure more people, not less and so it's my feeling that the rising costs that are going on will not be solved by getting rid of people's health insurance--that throws them into emergency rooms and charity and other things. That's why HR 676 is our ultimate solution--is that everybody's insured from birth on and that's what we're still fighting for."