[currymj]

Democrats do not all want single payer healthcare. Only the left wing of the party really wants it, although this is slowly changing.

Center and center-right Democrats are pretty happy with the ACA as it was intended, although often not as it actually turns out in many states. Unsurprisingly, a lot of them take big contributions from insurers and pharmaceutical companies.

I think if single payer becomes widely accepted within the party, you probably will see the "helping entrepreneurs" angle as a big part of the messaging -- individual candidates do bring it up.

[tptacek]

Ideologues on both sides have very specific ideas for how health care should be structured, but I think that most people on both sides can agree on basic principles: health insurance (if that's what we have) needs to be guaranteed-issue, premiums have to be reasonable, and pricing needs to be transparent. One thing the ACA got right is the name of the bill.