"Since 2009, the Republican Party's Posture on Health Care Has Been a Giant Lie"

"Republican elected officials promised in public to work cooperatively to solve the problems in the system, especially a broken individual market in which insurance was unaffordable to anybody with a preexisting condition. But both their political interest in denying Obama a victory and their ideological opposition to bigger government in any form drove them to a very different goal: blocking any bill at all. Republicans strung out negotiations with the Obama administration for a year, publicly blaming Democrats for rushing through a partisan bill while refusing to be pinned down on any concrete proposals or demands.
"They insisted if Obamacare could be blocked–and then, after it passed, repealed–Republicans would design a better alternative that would do all the good things Obamacare delivered, without costing anybody anything."

Jonathan Chait at New York writes that "Democrats Won the House Because of Obamacare."