The rhetoric on healthcare reform has stayed remarkably similar ever since July 2009. Even at the beginning of the Obamacare saga, we exposed the wide gulf between how reform was described and what the actual details of reform would mean for taxpayers. 
Four years later, rhetoric has morphed into a cruel reality for millions of Americans who now must deal with the real life consequences of the penalties, taxes, and regulations associated with this law.
The healthcare oratory of 2009 featured words like “choice” and “options” which now ring hollow as millions of Americans are dropped from insurance plans they already liked. The much vaunted 2009 “marketplace” has been reduced to a simple, yet profound website error message. The “competition” that was promised, failing along with the site.
A lot has changed in America since 2009, and Obamacare’s rhetorical realities are now much clearer. A plan that promised so much has delivered precious little. All of it proving that the critics may have been right all along.