>>It's a safe bet that she never would done this without the pressure from Bernie and his supporters.
I've said here and elsewhere that the pre-Obamacare system would have collapsed under the weight of its special interest groups and profiteers within a decade. The only special interest groups that belong naturally in healthcare are the doctors, nurses, other caregivers, porters and other support staff, and whatever admin staff those groups call on to organize and assist their services to patients. The smartest trick would be to try to return the healthcare professions to vocations rather than clock watchers or entrepreneurs trying to keep up with the Jones, surrounded by jackals.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1