Courting to the Dems means ing. Obamacare ed the middle class business owner. It catered to people with no money or extreme existing conditions. It's like crashing your car and some insurance company being forced to cover you after the fact.
Increasing demand and not putting in price controls was a poor policy decision but behaving obtuse to the role of conservatives and the insurance lobby is what you are doing here.

Who was it that was fighting against said controls and the public option after all?

I realize you want to dumb it down into one simple concept but that just will not do.