You say that like the ACA was the only way to get that outcome...that somehow more insurance was the solution rather than the problem. The fact of the matter was that with a democratic president and the largest democratic majority in generations, voted in on a platform of "just fucking fix healthcare already", we still couldn't even see a single payer proposal make it to the floor for a vote.

Not only did we not get the healthcare that we voted for, we got mandated insurance based healthcare at even higher prices, with even more bureaucracy, and huge tech boondoggles as the icing on the cake. Sold to the public as not a tax, but then justified at the Supreme Court as a tax. 5% of the population comes out ahead and everybody else behind.

The 111th congress will go down in history as the most cowardly and counter effective we will ever see. That Obama is whitewashing and patting himself on the back like this is bordering on insanity.