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Romneycare was what the basic concept of the ACA was called before it was called Obamacare. There are very few American politicians on either side of the aisle who favour single-payer healthcare.
After Obama campaigned on healthcare as a key issue, he ended up using a Republican healthcare reform as the framework for his federal reform in order to get the corporate crony faction of the Democrat party on side. The Republicans, in a classic example of American politics being literally the dumbest thing ever, decided that they couldn't be seen as agreeing with a Democrat (particularly a black one), even if it was their own idea, so they moved the Overton Window even further right and began claiming that even ACA was a bridge too far.
Obama's first proposal was for a single-payer system. That proposal lost by effectively 1 vote.
You don't need to link me anything, because I was a grown adult in 08.
"Obamacare" for instance, was coined when Obama won, because right-wing talk channels had been expecting Hillary Clinton to win the Primary and had already coined "HillaryCare" from her own single-payer proposal shed had since the 90s.
Fuckin weird that leftists try to distort recent history as if people weren't fucking alive in 2008 and can correct them.
Fuckin weird that you seem to think 'leftist' is a cogent insult.
It's not an insult - right-wing people don't do that. They make up different wholesale bullshit
Have you not noticed that this happens every time? They always manage to find that one vote to prevent anything truly progressive from happening. If we need 60 votes to make something change for the better in this country, there will be 59 yay votes, with 2 people voting "present."
They dont "find the vote" to do that lol. That's exactly backwards. Democrats are a loose coalition of "not Republican" and some regions of the country elect nominal democrats that are not on board with every party intention
You have Bernie Sanders one example, and Joe Manchin as another, to give a recent opposition.