Single payer here we come.
I have a different take on all this. I believe Obama care was supposed to work just enough but still have big problems so that the politicians could fix those problems with the usual governmental fixes there by eventually bringing us to single-payer. I can’t imagine that we were going to get government healthcare byways of a spectacular failure of one government program
The reason why I feel this way is because Obamacare was passed by people who do believe our problems can be fixed by government. People like Barack Obama do not believe that government programs fail.
All this is just my opinion of course
Obama had previously tipped his hand in speeches to union groups. Said that he personally preferred single payer but that it was not possible to get there “in one step”.