ACA was never going to be single payer. Lieberman played the bad guy to kill the public option, but it was pretty obvious it was only there to be bargained out in the first place.
Single payer, on the other hand, was never even considered to be an option.
The drama isn't exactly their fault. There are a lot of rich organizations that want them to cease to exist. Most of which want track you online and/or shove ads down your throat.
Vance is much less capable than Trump (and yes, I realize the complete deapth of incompetence that would imply). The harm that he could do would be negated by the complete inability of anyone around him to take him or any threat from him seriously. Especially those on his own side.
Trump, at the very least, still has the threat of his rabid fans to wield.
The tea party changed republicans by being belligerent assholes that refused to play along with old GOP leadership. I'm not sure that the left in the US has it in them to do that to the DNC.
This is what credit unions are for. If you have an account, you own a piece of it. There are no billionaire investors that don't even use the service to ruin everything.
Subway got in trouble for their subs not being a full twelve inches. They tried to claim that 'footlong' was just a trademark and didn't mean they'd be an actual foot long.
ACA was never going to be single payer. Lieberman played the bad guy to kill the public option, but it was pretty obvious it was only there to be bargained out in the first place.
Single payer, on the other hand, was never even considered to be an option.