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Looking at the youtube, maybe you're target was Trump. I took you for a Rubio supporter. Rubio has been the main candidate accusing Cruz of being responsible for Obamacare, because he supported Roberts for the USSC. This falsehood really ticks me off, per my post above.

Maybe Trump's brought this up, too, but I haven't seen any other candidate use this line of argument.

Trump vis-a-vis Healthcare, he's all but said "single payer" in his body of speeches. If you think THE DONALD is going to dismantle Obamacare and leave a private insurance solution, then show me anywhere in his history prior to 2015 where he HASN'T supported Obamacare or a single payer plan.

At best, Trump may try to "make the system work better" by beating on private companies, which will stifle innovation and restrict investment. He says he'll cut regulation (i.e. remove state to state limits), which is good, but he's thinner on those details than he is on his prior support of Romneycare, Obamacare, and single payer.

If he's actually "for" the mandate, and didn't misspeak, then, nuff said.

Trumps positions prior to this election.

Obamacare can’t be reformed, salvaged, or fixed. It’s that bad. Obamacare has to be killed now before it grows into an even bigger mess, as it inevitably will. Obamacare takes full effect in 2014. If it’s not repealed before then, it will be more than just another failed government entitlement program—it will be the trillion-ton weight that finally takes down our economy forever.
Obamacare is a heat-seeking missile that will destroy jobs & small businesses; it will explode health-care costs; and it will lead to health care that is far less innovative than it is today. Every argument that you’d make against socialism you can make against socialized health care, and any candidate who isn’t 100% committed to scrapping Obamacare is not someone America should elect president. Repealing Obamacare may be one of the most important and consequential actions our next president takes.
Source: Time to Get Tough, by Donald Trump, p.121-122 , Dec 5, 2011

Increase insurance competition across state lines

Even if we elect a real president who will get tough and repeal Obamacare, we still need a plan to bring down health-care costs and make health-care insurance more affordable for everyone. It starts with increasing competition between insurance companies. Competition makes everything better and more affordable.
One way to infuse more competition into the market is to let citizens purchase health-care plans across state lines.
This could be easily accomplished if Congress got some guts and did the right thing. The U.S. Constitution gives Congress control over interstate commerce. But for whatever reason, the Congress has never exercised this power regarding health insurance. They need to.
Source: Time to Get Tough, by Donald Trump, p.131 , Dec 5, 2011

For those that talk about Trumps assertion that we must have Single payer, here is what he really said read the entire statement.... It is an unacceptable but accurate fact that the number of uninsured Americans has risen to 42 million. Working out detailed plans will take time. But the goal should be clear: Our people are our greatest asset. We must take care of our own. We must have universal healthcare.

Our objective [should be] to make reforms for the moment and, longer term, to find an equivalent of the single-payer plan that is affordable, well-administered, and provides freedom of choice. Possible? The good news is, yes.

There is already a system in place-the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program-that can act as a guide for all healthcare reform. It operates through a centralized agency that offers considerable range of choice. While this is a government program, it is also very much market-based. It allows 620 private insurance companies to compete for this market. Once a year participants can choose from plans which vary in benefits and costs. Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p.206-208 & 218 , Jul 2, 2000