You need to ask the Red State people who consistently state they like and want it and that Trump and co fear mightily whenever they think their voters are going to mess with it.
You telling them they do not value is meaningless when it is clear they do.
Blue state welfare-for-life losers and career criminals benefited more from expanded Medicaid in far larger numbers while those actually having to PAY for a policy saw costs rise and their coverage go from decent to 'I got fucked.'
Blue States also pay in the VAST VAST amount of money that pays for it BOTH in Red and Blue States. So the Blue States are just getting their money back mostly, and it Red states that are the welfare recipients.
Politics. It's that simple.
That does not answer the question. If the ObamaCare is so terrible then it must be easy to craft a better program. If it is not easy that means people cannot think of ways to improve it.
There is no politics, NONE, that would say to the Magat party to keep a more popular program they had in the wings secret for over a decade.
Let me rephrase as Magats and you are stupid so you might indeed think it is good politics to have a superior policy that you know voters would like more, a secret.
No. A government program, once started, is nearly impossible to kill off.
An entrenched position in warfare is difficult and costly to take. An entrenched position in a bureaucracy is virtually impossible to defeat.
Not if you are replacing it with a better one. NO one is going to complain about something that is better. What you are saying is true only if you kill it with no better option coming in.
But again, i must defer to my prior point. You magats are stupid so you might believe replacing Obamacare with something voters like more would be bad politics.