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I'm pretty sure Obama really wanted single payer, but just didn't have the votes in Congress to pull it off. Thus we ended up with the ACA, which was at least a start, but ended up being an unpopular and flawed program.
This is one of those things that seems true but really isn't. When Republican voters were polled - more than once over a long period - they quite liked the Affordable Care Act. It was only when pollsters called it Obamacare that the approval went down.
There's a reason the Republicans couldn't get rid of the ACA, and it's not just because they never came through with an alternative: People generally like it and consider it a positive step.