Actually, I think it was. But, it was "broken" on purpose to create the environment in which their "solution", ergo 0'care, could be trojan'd-horsed into place to fix things.
It needed a few tweaks. It wasn’t broken.
I don’t recall poor people dying out in the streets because they didn’t have health insurance. Everyone had healthcare if they could afford it or not. We had the best healthcare system in the world. Could it have been improved? Sure.