The Democrats never defended the status quo of the public healthcare system pre-Obamacare. Not only did you completely change the topic to avert from your asinine comment, you're just making stuff up as you go.
You're a troll. Admit it.
Democrats invented the public healthcare system pre-Obamacare, less Bush's Medicare Part D debacle. Democrats have been trying to marry the healthcare state to the government-subsidized "private" insurance industry since the Hillarycare era. When they had control of the executive branch and congress, they may have succeeded in creating a slightly less horrible version of what they have endorsed for a half century, though the jury is still out.
There is no private healthcare system, except for concierge medicine to the economic elites, like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. If healthcare sucks in America, it's because the people who write the healthcare regulations are incompetent.
ACA is a slightly less vigorous beating, paid for by the elites who don't even use health insurance.
