Sen. Barrasso: Ocare was “designed to fail so that they could get to the single payer system that the president has supported all along.”

— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) February 26, 2015

These people are pathological. They see conspiracies everywhere.

*Booga Booga*

And far from failing, the ACA is registering millions to get health insurance, but the GOP is trying to strangle the program in every imaginable way, including lawfare and flat out lying about how the program was established. They’re trying to take a drafting error and using that as the basis to eliminate subsidies for millions in GOP dominated states that refused to establish their own exchanges (which are private insurance company marketplaces, but I digress).

Single payer would have been preferable, but that’s not what Congress passed (without GOP assistance). The GOP response is silence as to what they’d actually do if the Supreme Court strikes down the subsidies.

Of course, we are supposed to have amnesia that the individual mandate was a GOP idea proffered by Heritage to counter Hillary’s health care proposals. It was mean to push personal responsibility, but when Democrats took the idea and made it central to ACA as a way to garner GOP support, the GOP turned around and began calling the very idea they had been championing for years unconstitutional (so, yes, there’s a whole lot of cognitive dissonance too).