Society can not allow people to be uninsured while also forcing medical care providers to treat emergencies as we currently do. It's a horrible moral hazard and increases health care costs for everyone else. There is no political will to end the "hospitals must admit people even if they don't have insurance" rule, so we had to do something about getting everyone insured.
I've held a view similar to yours for a while, that the two parties are the same in many ways, more beholden to money and power than concerned about their constituents.
But I'd point out that one real difference lately is the whole stolen election thing and the related attempts to delegitimize the judicial system. That's some scary stuff. That's how democracies disappear.
