The Affordable Care act was a short term rescue and a long term wealth transfer to Wall Street. It had all the hallmarks of neoliberal half-measures that reliably fail at everything but making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

• Public private partnership with inadequate price controls guaranteed that costs would skyrocket.

• Means testing guaranteed that the spending would be resented by those that have too much money to qualify.

• Since the people with money are also the people with power/influence, it was guaranteed to be undone.

• Since it raised costs dramatically, it guaranteed that even more people would lose access when it was undone.

While it wasn't an excuse for voting Republican, the ACA only rescued people from the frying pan to cast them in the fire.

of course they would, i would expect nothing less from republicans.