FLASHBACK: Walz doubled down on support for government-run health care during gubernatorial campaign

Minnesota's Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, who is currently running to be the next vice president of the United States, once said in a gubernatorial debate that he supports "single-payer health care," also known as "Medicare-for-all."

"I think that's probably the path where we end up," Walz said in a 2018 debate while running for governor when asked, "Are you for single-payer?"

"And I say that because, be very clear about this, there were no protections for preexisting conditions before the ACA," Walz continued. "A vote for the ACA was the first time in this nation's history we had those protections and making sure people have that protection, making sure they were covered, and then making sure we were focused on preventative care, people were finally getting that under the ACA, we started to see health outcomes improve and that's the real key to driving down insurance premium prices."

Walz went on to say "let's be very clear" that there is "no market in health care."

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"Because markets by nature would be a failure if someone didn't have it, there's not going to be, you cannot simply shrink a pool to the sickest people and say that's where we are going to manage them when they're in crisis. That's not the way to go about this. The way to go about this is making sure everybody has that preventative care, making sure everybody has that access on the front end, you start to drive down prices. The ACA did that."

Walz's opponent, Republican Jeff Johnson, then pressed Walz on the issue.

"I'm not sure what your answer was. Do you support single-payer health care?"

"Yes," Walz said. "That was the answer I just gave you."

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