This is just a wild theory so please take it with a ton of salt.
The demmies want single payer, but it can’t be in one swoop, so they’ll do it one step at a time.
But the drool was too much to take and they jumped the gun a bit with the mandate thing. Sooooooo, probably knowing it will be in court, maybe this is a bizar “haggel” situation.
You’re selling a TV and ask for $1,000 (knowing that’s too high....probably costs $250) so you start high haggle it down to $400. You may not get the 1k but you advance the marker a little bit forward. Oh, it will go through the courts, might get a little messy in November, but you get some things out of it while it gets “sanitized” (aka legit) from the courts.