Obamacare.......

* It didn't really "provide access to health insurance," since everybody already had access to health insurance; the issue was (and still is) cost.

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires most Americans to have health insurance starting in 2014. People who don’t comply have to pay a penalty, the amount of which depends on several factors, including income and family size.


Groups Exempt from Penalty Tax
The following groups are not liable for the ACA penalty tax if they do not get adequate health insurance. The list does not include all groups who would not owe the tax.

1. Individuals with income below the income tax filing threshold
2. Individuals for whom the cost of getting health insurance (net of ACA subsidies) would exceed 8% of household income in 2014 (That percentage would rise in subsequent years if premium growth exceeds income growth.)
3. Individuals in states that did not accept the ACA’s Medicaid expansion who would have qualified for Medicaid under the expansion
4. Members of Indian tribes
5. Members of certain religious faiths
6. Members of a health care sharing ministry
7. Individuals not legally in the U.S. (undocumented aliens)
8. Incarcerated individuals

This “net investment tax” is an additional 3.8 percent tax levied on the sale of any asset that results in a capital gain as long as your adjusted gross income is over $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for married couples. This includes the sale of homes over a certain value.
In a report we published in February of this year, we outlined the effect of this tax plus the expiration of parts of the Bush Tax Cuts on marginal tax rates on capital gains.
On January 1st, 2013, the Senate passed H.R. 8, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. Among a number of major changes to the tax code in 2013, America’s top capital gains tax rate increased from 15 percent to 20 percent. On top of this, the healthcare law introduced a 3.8 percent net investment tax. Combined with state and local taxes on capital gains, the average top marginal tax rate in the United States increased to 27.9 percent from 19.1 percent.

"For the first time in American history, it forced all Americans to take personal responsibility for their healthcare."

If only that were true. Actually it forced many tens of millions of Americans who were ALREADY doing that to then ADD ON the responsibility of millions who WERE NOT being responsible for it before.

Obumblecare didn't make "the poor" suddenly responsible. It forced the many to PAY FOR them in yet another expansive social program.

Beneath contempt.

Or maybe I misunderstood your question?

Bwahahaha... yeah, the death of the rebumblecon party has been quite exaggerated!

Only thing that could make it even more enjoyable is if you end up posting that YOUR insurance premiums just went UP...