Before she became First Lady, she was a hospital executive in Chicago.

So Michelle Obama knows better than most what ails America’s health care system.

Today, she was at the Upper Cardozo Community Health Center in Washington, D.C.

Ever since he was arrested last month before the Senate Finance Committee for asking that single payer be put on the table, friends and family of Adam Schneider have been calling and asking – what’s single payer?

“I’ve gotten more phone calls and e-mails from friends of my parents who saw the YouTube video and wanted to know what this was all about,” Schneider told Single Payer Action last week.