lots of dumbass in this thread.
obamacare is not what it was supposed to be. it was supposed to require all states to set up exchanges. one reason insurance rates are screwed up is that a republican supreme court gave states the power to opt out of setting up exchanges/extending medicaid. remember that wasnt supposed to happen?
the law was also supposed to have a public option, a non-profit plan run by the govt to give private insurance some competition! that was scuttled by democrats in the senate. max baucus got a big check from big insurance to make sure private insurers can maintain their monopolies.
so yeah, some insurance policies are messed up. just wait until the supreme court doubles down on the chaos it created, when it forbids the feds from extending subsidies to states that were not supposed to be allowed to opt out to begin with.
as far as single payer, dems never brought it to the floor cause they knew it had no chance. They woulda been better off just extending medicare to everyone & letting those with means opt for better coverage. But creating a big new federal bureaucracy is far more attractive to the party whose primary income is public-employee-union revenue.
bottom line, dems are running healthcare badly. but thats better than anything republicans propose, which is to return to letting people die because they got cancer & didnt have a job. meanwhile insurance execs still can buy a second yacht, regardless which party runs things.
