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You're making it pretty obvious that you paid absolutely no attention to either of these president's accomplishments.
One of them gave me affordable healthcare when I was young and broke, for starters.
They had control of the house, senate and presidency and backed away from passing a single payer system. They chose, instead, to simply provide government subsidies to insurance companies.
They had the opportunity, and the power, to provide universal healthcare like ever other Western Democracy and they chose to gift health insurance company billions without any meaningful change to the system.
I'm glad you got healthcare, everyone should have healthcare. Everyone could have had healthcare, but they were weak.
How long did they have control of the house, senate, and presidency and did they have a supermajority?
They controlled the House and Obama was President. And, for months (72 working days), they had a supermajority in the Senate.
The ACA was negotiated and passed while a Senate seat was being contested, it was decided in favor of Franken(D) giving the Democrats a supermajority for months.
Medicare for all was reintroduced, as it has been cut from the ACA, but the bill never made it to a floor vote. They could have passed it with a party line vote but Obama was trying to create bipartisanship and passing Medicare for all was attacked in the media ("Death Panels" was a popular right-wing meme at the time) so the Democrats simply carried on, leaving us without a single payer system.