Fifteen years after its passage, the Affordable Care Act found itself at the center of the longest federal government shutdown in American history. The government is open again, but Republicans — who control the House, Senate and White House — are railing against the current system.

“We know that American health care needs dramatic reform,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said at a news conference last month. “Let's just state it simply: Obamacare failed the American people.”

The Affordable Care Act, which was passed during President Barack Obama's administration, is colloquially known as "Obamacare."

“Obamacare is causing premiums to skyrocket,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said on the Senate floor last month.

“The biggest lie in town is the Affordable Care Act. It’s the Unaffordable

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