It's going to significantly help a small, but not insignificant, percentage of the electorate. Most people won't see any real change at all (although they will now be safer). Only a very few will be worse off, and then only because they are so young, healthy, and rich. (so to hell with them anyway )

People will realize that the Republicans have been spinning bullshit about this program for years once it is fully into effect and actually helping people.

Been my impression they want Obama to be seen as a failure, period. Nevermind all the achievements during his terms; just focus on one issue alone and harp over and over on it. Seems like a stalling technique since they've got no game. After all, it is under a Democratic president that one of their own policies (Romneycare) got implemented.

they have ZERO solutions; all they can do is obstruct - f*** them all

it is the whole idea that the government--not the Invisible Hand of the Market--can do something positive for ordinary people that has the Republicans in such a panic.

That would go a long way toward destroying the St Ronnie of Raygun myth that "government isn't the solution, it's the problem."