There is always a postive in a negative so to speak.

On the one side, there are the folks with the "wait-and-see" view and the ACA was some sort of moral imperative that was the necessary outcome of years and years of struggle.

On the other side, there's folks like me who believe Obama simply lied to the American pulbic, and time will likewise tell. Further, instead of a $2,500 premium reduction (another lie), there's a pretty good chance that the ACA will cost well over $1 Trillion dollars a year. That equals to about $3,250 per American citizen. Someone has to pay, of course, so there goes $13K from my household assuming everyone in my household has to pay for someone else's healthcare.

So, assuming it's a flop, I suspect those who backed the ACA will be leaving DC and a new regime of politicians will take the helm of the ship. If so, the social progressive agenda will be set back a great deal. Or, maybe the scales have tipped and those who receive something from the government will simply keep on voting for those politicians who give out the benefits to their voting base.

Time will tell. However, time is running out since the numbers and the math point to one inescapable conclusion and that is the federal goodies given to many can no longer be supported. What will happen then ? If it becomes too late to correct our problems, who will be blamed ?