Any liberal who is upset because it isn’t “single payer” doesn’t understand the concept of a creeping tide of socialism. Incrementalism is the key. If it isn’t repealed in total, single payer is coming. Obama said that it may take 20 years to get rid of private insurance but that is the stated goal.
I think the plan now is to let the costs go totally out of control to ramp up public support for a "public option" as a cheap alternative. It could work. We need to repeal that mess.