I think that the GOP needs to hit hard on this in 2014, 2016, and beyond. And what I’m thinking is that Obamacare shows that big government, bureaucratic, top down “solutions” to our problems just don’t work they way the liberals promise they will.
Whenever any liberals propose any big government solution to anything in the future, we should pounce and say, look what happened with Obamacare — so many unintended consequences, so many new taxes and regulations which we didn’t know about, etc. We should pounce and use this as an example of what the liberals want to do in energy, education, the environment, and other areas of life which they seek control over.
Obamacare could well make the case for conservative principles, in showing how liberal ideas work in the real world, and how things don’t work the way the liberals promise they will.
I welcome the GOP opining on solutions. There are many solutions out there, but it involves slaying many problems the GOP helped to create, ie EMTALA.