The failure of "bi-partisanship".

[MichMary]

1. Wrong

From his very first day in office until the last, President Obama has tried to work with Republicans in a "bi-partisan" way. But, what about Obamacare, your ask? That is why he didn't go for a public option or a single payer. Because he knew Republicans would not support it. With Obamacare, he had a few Republicans on board at first, but they gradually dropped off from Tea Party pressure.

President Obama had to drop the public option and single payer to get all the conserva-Dems on board. There was a large enough contingency of them who would have deep-sixed the whole thing if they had to support single payer/public option. Even without either of those two things he had to make serious concessions in order to get all the Dems to support it.

The fact is that there was no need to make any concessions to the Rs. We had a filibuster-proof Senate majority, and a sizable majority in the House. If the Dems had been able to agree on things, we could have had anything we wanted.