If Obamacare never enrolls the 20 million people that it is supposed to serve is it still a success, regardless of the cost?

No. The way to measure the success of obamacare isn't in the enrollment numbers. The way to measure the success is to see if obamacare fulfilled all the promises, miracles, and fixes obamacare supporters were feeding us years ago. As one can see, the exact opposite has occured. Keep our plans and doctors? Lower insurance costs? Better access a d better quality care? More jobs? Deficit neutral? You'll notice they are no longer touting its costs to the taxpayer because its grown way, way over what they promised us what it would cost. Its a disaster.

"Obamacare" is not insurance. It can't enroll anyone in anything. It's a law regulating the health insurance industry, and the health care delivery system.

Whether it's a success or not, depends on how you define that. Clearly some aspects of this comprehensive law have been more successful than others, and in any case, it's still not fully implemented yet.

Are you referring to the people buying insurance via the health care exchanges? That's only one part of the law. Certainly they had a rocky start, no question about that. I think the jury is still out on how successful they will be.

There are going to still be uninsured people even after the law is fully implemented. That was expected, although perhaps the number will still be too high according to the goals of HHS.

I think ultimately, "success" or "failure" of the ACA (if you want to put it in such black-and-white terms) will be determined by whether when looked at as a whole if Americans in general are better off healthcare-wise than they were before, and I think we really don't know the answer to that yet. Of course cost needs to be considered as well.

If it wasn't for the sick and people on Obamacare. It would be a success. Insurance is not the same thing as healthcare.

It depends on whether it succeeds in lowering the number of uninsured,

and

make more increases in healthcare quality,

and by virtue of that

increase the overall health of people in the US,

and by virtue of that and the 80/20 rule in the ACA,

lowering healthcare spending,

if we based on all the increased transparency in healthcare, if we

find a way,

to lower healthcare spending enough to (because of the 80/20 rule) make healthcare insurance premiums more affordable.

it really depends on the situation... me personally, I think the overall uninsured rate is the leading indicator of success... getting them insured is the key part... it doesn't have to be directly through Obamacare...

No, it was a disaster from the beginning.

Obama nor any of his appointees knew what to

do from the first, and it shows. National healthcare

is not what it's cracked up to be....ask most the

people in Canada and elsewhere that have it.

it is a massive legislative failure.

No different can be expected from "comprehensive immigration reform". Good legislation cannot be crafted like this. We must attack large problems incrementally, NOT in a poorly planned, dishonestly implemented, onerous way.

It is a success at this point, and programs this large usually take 2-3 years to get fully implemented.