If all the predictions of death panels, death spirals, exploding unemployment, exploding costs, lack of signups, etc does not happen by 2016, will the GOP have any price to pay for being so colossally wrong? They will have had sued Obama over it, shut down the government over it, constantly harped on it for years and by the next general election it will likely be an accepted part of the American healthcare system.
Can they really run on how they are the ones to 'fix' what problems there are?
The cost explosion has already happened. Obamacare is just ensuring that we have an orderly demolition of the American middle class.