The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a failure because of its unpopularity and invitation to increase the size of government at the expense of individual control over one's healthcare.
The intention is a noble one but this kind of program usually ends poorly for those it is designed to help.
Examples of socialized medicine in countries similar to the USA, like the UK, have served as warnings to average Americans.
The taxes that are part of the program are unprotected in the same way the Social Security Fund is unprotected and will only entice the federal government to replace people's money with IOUs.
The Act divided the people of this country and any law that toxic cannot be good for us. We deserve better from our government and the Affordable Care Act is not it.