The insurance companies supported and lobbied for the ACA -- which was the only reason it barely passed -- because they thought they were getting a gigantic pay

The insurance companies supported and lobbied for the ACA -- which was the only reason it barely passed -- because they thought they were getting a gigantic payday from the employer mandate. With that gone they're doing their best to either kill the law or perhaps lean on it hard enough to get vastly broader subsidies to make it worth their while. The 11-dimensional chess idea that passing a law to destroy the individual insurance market is going to bank-shot into single payer would require an absolutely massive outbreak of corporate and public support that really doesn't have any reason to appear.