Really? Is it so hard to understand that we have never really had a debate about this law and that the people who supposedly like it know nothing about its realities?
Is it so hard to understand that the MSM would never have brought the huge flaws of this law to the attention of its audience without someone standing up and saying the obvious?
Bringing the genuine idiocy and foolishness of this law to the attention of the US voter is what happened.
Ted Cruz did the right thing.
Not a single republican senator at the time (AND THIS INCLUDES YOU JOHN MCCAIN!!!) took to the floor to filibuster Obamacare. They did absolutely nothing to delay or obstruct it, mainly because Mitch McConnell was scared of defying literally anybody.