'obamacare' is bipartisan compromise. Obama was in favor of single-payer - that's what he wanted congress to implement. he didn't implement it himself - he pressured congress to pass healthcare reform. that's respecting the rule of law. the American public overwhelmingly supported reforming healthcare. even today, if asked separately about things contained in the healthcare act, and not about the buzzword "obamacare," a large majority of Americans support things that are in it. that's respecting popular will.
he asked for single payer - but what we have instead is a mish-mash half-measure that came directly out of a Republican think tank and caters to insurance lobbies. that's bipartisan compromise. it came from congress - not the white house - and was subsequently gutted & hobbled by every means available to party-line republicans, to make sure as well as they could that it couldn't be successful, while at the same time their media outlets loudly and incessantly proclaimed that congress, the state legislatures & governors had nothing at all to do with the law and that it was completely Obama's baby.
the president asked for a hawk; they built a lame duck, branded it with his name, and have been chucking rocks at it for years ever since.
if Omaba was the "tyrant" that right-wing propaganda paints him to be, we would have a single payer universal healthcare system today, but we don't. my state still hasn't even set up the insurance market, so i'm exempt from the fine for being uninsured. we would have stricter gun control laws. but we don't. you can now carry on a train, in a bar, in national parks. i can buy a rifle off the side of the road with no check and no waiting period and no registration, any day of the week. Gitmo would be closed. it isn't. tens of thousands more Syrian refugees would be given shelter here. they aren't. there would be 478 billion dollars in public infrastructure projects repairing roads and bridges around the country. there aren't, because the GOP blocked that. because obstructionism and propaganda are what they do.
