They controlled the House and Obama was President. And, for months (72 working days), they had a supermajority in the Senate.
The ACA was negotiated and passed while a Senate seat was being contested, it was decided in favor of Franken(D) giving the Democrats a supermajority for months.
Medicare for all was reintroduced, as it has been cut from the ACA, but the bill never made it to a floor vote. They could have passed it with a party line vote but Obama was trying to create bipartisanship and passing Medicare for all was attacked in the media (“Death Panels” was a popular right-wing meme at the time) so the Democrats simply carried on, leaving us without a single payer system.
They controlled the House and Obama was President. And, for months (72 working days), they had a supermajority in the Senate.
The ACA was negotiated and passed while a Senate seat was being contested, it was decided in favor of Franken(D) giving the Democrats a supermajority for months.
Medicare for all was reintroduced, as it has been cut from the ACA, but the bill never made it to a floor vote. They could have passed it with a party line vote but Obama was trying to create bipartisanship and passing Medicare for all was attacked in the media (“Death Panels” was a popular right-wing meme at the time) so the Democrats simply carried on, leaving us without a single payer system.