You should know: Joe Lieberman, Senate Democrat, was singularly responsible for killing the single payer option. Also it was all about the money.

“A public option plan is unnecessary,” he told Fox News. “It has been put forward, I’m convinced, by people who really want the government to take over all of health insurance.”

In retrospect, the half a million dollars in campaign contributions might have been the best money the industry ever spent.

https://publicintegrity.org/health/elimination-of-public-option-threw-consumers-to-the-insurance-wolves/