I've read it the same from day one. They're just not that smart. If they truly wanted to destroy the health care system in order to usher in single payer, they could have done it a lot easier, and with far fewer electoral consequences to their party, than erecting an unworkable behemoth like Obamacare.
No, they're a bunch of over-educated ignoramuses who really believe that gargantuan, big government Socialism, creates showers of free skittles and rainbows.
Guess the WhiteyHut didn’t bother hiring any historians, otherwise they would have known FDR tried the same load of horsehockey with in-experienced eggheads and although he did stick us with SS and was only saved by the Japs and Hitler, for the most part his ideas and programs were rejected.