Ok, people say this, but you'll need to actually articulate where I 'reworte' history?
I never said Bernie wanted a public option and if you'll recall, Obama had 60 Democrats. He caved LONG before there was ANY vote and never offered a pubic option.
What I said was a Universal option became moot when Obama didn't include a Public Option in the ACA despite a public option being WILDLY popular and...roughly ~75% of Americans in favor of it(it could have been 77%, it could have been 71%, I don't recall the exact number, but it was over 70%).
Why didn't it get included? Because...Obama needed the Health Insurance industry on it.
In the 1970s, ~97-98 cents on the dollar from your Health Insurance Premiums went towards medical costs.
By the time the ACA came around, it was about 73-74%. A public option where the Govt, again, in one of the few areas they're actually MORE efficient than the Market, that would have gutted Health Insurance Companies and they would have had to drop their rates and become more competitive.
In order to facilitate this, I think it would have been wise for the public option to cut off their "profits" at 10%. You use that to service the debt and you bring down insurance costs.
What's just fact is the ACA did NOT have a public option, I NEVER said that was Bernie's end goal(it was most certainly his goal back then, but I didn't even say as much) and without the public option, you're not going to jump to a single payer system. There are the steps you would need.
But yeah, no re-writing history. I gave a very simple recounting of events. This happened(or didn't in this case) and as such, this is unrealistic at this point. Like driving a car from point A to point B, but you're upset I didn't describe all the scenery along the way.