Because Obama was unable to garner enough support for Single Payer... at least, not yet. While the ACA is hardly a perfect law, its quite possible that the grea

Because Obama was unable to garner enough support for Single Payer... at least, not yet. While the ACA is hardly a perfect law, its quite possible that the greatest thing it accomplishes is showing Americans how much worse our current system is than the Single Payer systems the rest of the 1st world employs. While the insurance companies were generally lobbying for the ACA (although there's definitely clauses they did not support), they are vehemently against Single Payer, since it puts them all out of business.