There isn’t one government mandate that will please everyone. That’s impossible. But when the good begins to outweigh the bad, the complaining should start to trickle down.
That doesn’t seem to be the case with the Affordable Care Act. With the help of subsidies, this act brings affordable health care to many people who couldn’t afford it otherwise.  
Republicans, generally speaking, have been angered and outraged with the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare, for many years. That furious outrage and excessive complaining began before the bill was passed through the Senate in 2009. 
No, Obamacare is not perfect. The fact that some people may be paying more with Obamacare than under their previous plan (even though they will receive a better and more secure plan) or the fines for the uninsured (although they can be waived with a valid excuse) could all be considered downfalls. 
Many Republicans believe this mandate is a costly failure, even though Obamacare has since proven many of their beliefs wrong.
The GOP argues the Affordable Care Act will increase the deficit, but according to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government is projected to spend less money on health insurance now than prior to the mandate.
The right wing has attempted to repeal Obamacare 56 times despite the fact that doing so will increase the deficit, according to The Daily Intelligencer.
It’s hard to understand how Obamacare is a failure when according to a Gallup poll, the percentage of Americans who don’t have insurance has dropped from an all-time high of 18 percent to 15 percent. More than 4 percent of Americans have received health care for the first time.
“We feel pretty comfortable attributing much of this change to the Affordable Care Act,” said lead researcher for the Gallup-Healthways
Well-Being Index Dan Witters.
The same Gallup poll shows that the uninsured rate for the states that didn’t accept the Medicaid expansion only moved from 18.7 percent to 17.9 percent, and the uninsured rate declined three times faster for the states that did accept it than the states that didn’t.
According to ObamaCareFacts, by the end of the 2015 open enrollment widow approximately 11.4 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare, exceeding the expected goal of 9.1 million. 
It’s ironic how a state like Texas has showed its disapproval of the act, but many of its counties’ uninsured rates have shifted more than 10 percentage points from 2013 to 2014, according to Enroll America.  
It doesn’t make sense how the Republican Party can hate something that is providing healthcare for millions of Americans. It’s one thing to hate something that is helping so many people, but it is another thing to hate it and barely do anything about it.
They are more interested in partisan politics than supporting a viable health care policy.  
Republicans have yet to vote on a serious alternative, nor have they made a feasible attempt to hold a floor debate. It seems like they aren’t too interested in compromise, but our government can’t work without it.  
If you’re insured under your employer, there are new advantages. There are caps on how much you have to pay out of pocket for doctor’s visits, and there is preventive care.  
Obamacare requires large companies that have over 50 employees to provide health care for full-time workers. For smaller companies that can’t afford to insure their employers, Obamacare only encourages them to. If they do so, they will receive tax breaks.
There are several more advantages to this mandate. There are no more inflated rates, Medicaid is expanding to cover more of us (this is left up to the state legislatures), you no longer have to pay for pre-existing medical conditions, and if you have a low enough income, you will receive a tax credit and numerous other gains.
College students now don’t have to worry about losing health insurance after they graduate because Obamacare allows you to stay on your parents’ plan until 26 and offers low budget plans until 30.  
This will take the stress away from trying to figure out how to pay for college and health insurance at the same time.
At the end of the day, this is helping us more than hurting.
Clarke Perkins is a 19-year-old political science freshman from New Orleans. You can reach her on Twitter
@ClarkePerkins.