That tells you all you need to know about masonic's partisanship. The bill was in Congress for 9 months before being signed into law. It was modeled after Massachusetts's law which was modeled after alternative models proposed in the 90s to then first lady Hillary Clinton's universal healthcare.
I definitely agree that Democrats are sleeping on their laurels when it comes to policy, but they do not have the votes to do much of anything, partially because their constituencies are disadvantaged, partially because they have many more internal conflicts than Republicans do at the moment.
But there is only one group in recent history that has tried ANYTHING to make healthcare more accessible and cheaper, and it was the 111th Congress in which Democrats had slim majorities.