stas | he was for it before he was against it

LIAR:

But the point is, is that government pays for everything, like, Medicare for all. That is a single-payer plan. I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter, because, frankly, we historically have had a employer-based system in this country, with private insurers, and for us to transition to a system like that, I believe, would be too disruptive.

PANTS ON FIRE:

I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal health care plan.

Чего я не пойму - ведь ему ничего не стоит сказать - да, говорил, было дело, а теперь понял, что это неверное решение. Если понял. Ему это даже ничего стоить не будет - мало ли он менял позиций. Однако же...

Впрочем, любопытны причины, по которым он не поддерживает:

we historically have had a employer-based system in this country with private insurers, and for us to transition to a system like that I believe would be too disruptive. So what would end up happening would be, a lot of people who currently have employer-based health care would suddenly find themselves dropped, and they would have to go into an entirely new system that had not been fully set up yet. And I would be concerned about the potential destructiveness of that kind of transition.

Т.е. причина в том, что слишком много людей в существующей системе, а новой пока нет. А вот если бы новая система уже была на месте, и люди к ней привыкли...