I'm not a particular fan of the ACA.  I detest the Republicans and their insurance industry handlers who were shortsightedly invited by Obama to help craft the bill, who made sure that for profit trumped affordable care and who then hypocritically voted against it so their constituency would blame Obama for the inevitable shortcomings their demands insured.
Remember that the bill passed without them.  We could have had Single Payer, a functioning means of paying for healthcare and negotiating with providers.  We might have looked at public financing of medical school so doctors don't begin their private practices in massive debt, a cost built into every medical bill.  We could have curbed the drug biz which lies every time they bemoan the costs of bringing a drug to market when most of the R&D is taxpayer funded.
I do blame Obama.  He held to the idealistic notion that Republicans were an Honorable Opposition who could be bargained with in good faith.  That was always foolish.

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