"however I wish that they just expanded the medicare program to give these subsidies"

This would have been a much better overall option vs entire ACA mess. Is the issue access to health insurance or access to health care service? I feel like the two got mixed together quite often (not sure how much was actual intentional deception vs truly not grokking the difference) but... insurance is not the same as care, and moving towards universal health care vs universal health insurance... I don't know when we'll ever get to the former. :/