I’m pretty sure all is going along as planned. Pretty soon the EO will be a single payer system in response to a “crisis”.
I think that ship has sailed, as far as this failing and leading to single payer. This has not just failed, but failed so unprecedentedly, so spectacularly, and been ridiculed so unmercifully, that instead of crying out for single-payer, I think most Americans are wishing the government would just get lost.
As FReeper HiTechRedNeck put it on another thread, the planners wanted “a soft fail, not a spectacular fall off the edge of the aircraft carrier fail.”