Originally Posted by Name User

That claim was based on a single payer system. Unfortunately, republicans wanted this convoluted system we have now that didn't really do anything different than what we had before. To the dems credit we are covering 20-30 million more people with a lot more coverage in general than we had before (ie preexisting condition clauses), so that is nice.

It was done this way because Obama wanted to compromise. Look where that gets you.