This illiterate article is worse than worthless.
But, it should still be pointed out that the Republicans have continued to fund Obamacare, every step of the way since they were given back control of the House.
They control the purse strings, but you would never know it from their actions.
There was a working "handshake" group of two woman PhD-level experts on public policy and health care who "did the dirty deal" in 2008, according to an Oct. 2008 article by Howell Raines, former editor of the New York Times (until discredited by the Jayson Blair affair).
The woman who represented the Democratic Party was from Harvard University, and a specialist in health policy. The other was from American Enterprise Institute. They shook hands on certain ideas, and presto, Obamacare was a done deal, and absent Raines, the People were never supposed to know about it.
The GOP motive was solicitude for the drive of S&P 500 CEO's to dump their employee healthcare obligations (no matter the human cost to the employees) without leaving any fingerprints. This deniable strategy totally explains the actions of the so-called GOP so-called leadership.
It also implied dumping the White House on Hillary, the then-presumptive nominee, just in time for the 2009 stock market crash to fall on her.
Things didn't turn out quite as envisioned (nobody ever expects the Catamite Inquisition), but, as somebody said in Falling Down, "That's the concept."