Just as the spying on Americans, Obamacare has been going ahead full steam without much fanfare from the media since before its inception...
I imagine it is so fully entrenched within the gov't departments and bureaucracies that it was designed to have provisions within it to prevent it from ever being defunded...
It seemed like an avenue that the House might have pursued, but then the issue seems to have disappeared.
Maybe the Marxists found a loophole.