At the time I did. But I think there are some important differences between Clinton's plan and ACA. The Clinton plan had an employer mandate as well as an individual one (the GOP alternative back then did too), it relied heavily on HMOs for coverage cost reductions, and it continued an unmitigated fee-for-service regime. ACA really doesn't have much in the way of an employer mandate, it replaces the heavy reliance on HMOs with the creation of insurance exchanges, and it implements IPAB as a first step towards transforming fee-for-service payments into quality care payments. Not making any judgments here about whether the latter will accomplish its aims. But, except for the differences in the structure of the mandates, it seems to me that ACA resembles the '94 Senate Republican counter-proposal to Clinton's plan more than it resembles Clinton's plan. That's why Dems in '09 thought it made for a promising compromise bill.
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