“No one will accept single payer.”
Obamacare was probably the last shot of anything involving private insurance. I think single payer is a lot closer than you think.
From all appearances, ObamaCare was designed to make the case for single-payer (not really be an alternative). As other FReepers have described, these health insurance companies are losing their shirts because they basically are operating like an auto insurance company that has to pay out your claim when you had a car accident without insurance and the government made them retroactively cover you.
They never anticipated so many healthy people would opt out instead of paying for unneeded insurance; the rising penalties were to correct that without costing Obama re-election. It won’t work anyway because the demographic shifts have removed many of the Anglo hosts the government parasites would feed on in the past; this country, between the horrible economy and a negative birthrate, is running out of white people to tax for all the free sh!t...