Ruffdesu Sep 27, 2018

Because honestly, it's still their fault. Not Trump as much since he wasn't in politics, though in the Obama years he was a very vocal and strangely influential voice in the country. Here's a brief history of the marketplace style healthcare we have under the ACA.

Early forms of this plan were popular proposals by Republicans since the 80's as an alternative to universal healthcare. They proposed it in various forms over and over for decades as their reasonable compromise in opposition of calls for any universal system.

Then, during the second Bush Presidency, a version was introduced that would over many revisions be passed as the ACA. Many moderate Democratic congressmen supported it as the best we were likely to get. The original version of it was a lot better for people than what eventually passed, but we'll get to that.

During Obama's campaign, a reporter brought up his support of the bill and coined the term Obamacare. The term stuck, which was ridiculous, but likely helped Obama win as Healthcare has been a huge issue for so long. Unfortunately, that connection to Obama was detrimental to the bill. Obama wins and as President pushes Congress to pass this thing. The Demoncrats didn't have enough pull to pass it in it's best possible form on their own, however, and Republicans stripped away a lot and made it the broken system it would become before enough of them would vote in favor of passing it to be successful. They presented the damage they did to the bill as opposition to Obama to garner favor from their voters. Remember though, this was a bill that was originally theirs and one they should have been proud to pass in a successful form and would have garnered them so much more positive attention had they not been petty and and played up the opposition politics. They hurt their bill and passed a problematic healthcare law all so they could blame Obama for it.

Since Trump took office, they've tried repealing it but failed because it's still better than nothing and in the meantime Trump has worked to strip as much of it's function as he can though the financial and tax parts and legal challenges which do not require Congress to work.

This in a nutshell is why these long time congressmen are pictured in this and their current President sits there deserving blame for not actively working to do something to make it better. He's just continuing the policy of pettiness.