Schakowsky, Democrat, Illinois on getting rid of private health care. At least she is honest about socialism:
I know many of you here today are single payer advocates and so am I … and those of us who are pushing for a public health insurance don’t disagree with this goal. This is not a principled fight. This is a fight about strategy for getting there and I believe we will.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) to a group of government-run health care supporters, April 18, 2009