And it was just a compromise with the republicans

It was a Republican policy! From the 80s.

You mean 'a Republican's (I.E. Mitt Romney) policy'. What a manipulative response.

Republics hated it and fought against it.

It goes back a lot further; see e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2012/02/07/the-to...

And Republicans fought against it because the wrong party/person proposed it.

For the majority of people, the ACA just meant "insurance has an excuse to raise premiums without end (far more than the number of new people covered)". There was some corporate trickery involved, but that doesn't matter to the individual who's paying more.

The majority of people are very grateful of the coverage. The ACA is very popular if you call it something different (to move away from the propaganda) and explain the details.

The ACA is popular, it is ObamaCare that is unpopular.

I don’t know any serious person who could make these arguments without also acknowledging that premiums were increasing before the ACA. They typically won’t acknowledge that the rate of increase slowed down post ACA because then their entire argument falls apart.

Okay, but even with that (though I really don't think there were >20% increases in any year prior to the ACA ...), all we get is my original point of "Obama promised change, but just provided more of the same."