Notice that defense of Obamacare is virtually non-existent with the Democrats.
They have found out that it isn't saving money, it isn't adding people onto the rolls of the insured.
It's going to be adding millions to the rolls of the insured when the coverage expansions begin in January--check the papers sometime.
As for whether it's saving money, health spending has slowed considerably, costs actually fell earlier this for the first time since the 1970s, and medical price inflation hasn't been this low in a half century.
Look at what's happened to projections of total health spending next year (released by the official scorekeepers, the CMS actuaries) over the past several years as conditions have changed.
Projections for total national health spending in 2014:
2009 prediction: $3,282 billion
2010 prediction (pre-reform): $3,225 billion
2013 prediction: $3,093 billion
That final projection was released earlier this month and incorporates the assumption that 11 million Americans will gain coverage in the first year of the coverage expansion (i.e. next year), something the 2009/10 projections obviously did not since they did not incorporate health reform. Yet even with millions more insured, health spending next year will be
lower than it was on track to be when Obama took office in 2009. Funny, that!