How do you solve problem called Obamacare?

Everyone in the punditocracy and the blogosphere seems to be weighing in on the imminent arrival of Obamacare, which starts up for real next week. Funding, or defunding, of Obamacare is the question of the day, the latest of the countless parade of manufactured crises we've seen this year coming out of Washington (show of hands -- anyone even remember the sequester fight?)

So, What Does It All Mean? I've been scratching my chin, ruminating deeply all the while, and here are my deep thoughts on the matter:

• First, the Ted Cruz kinda sorta filibuster wasn't really about stopping Obamacare. Cruz knows that Barack Obama isn't going to agree to defunding his signature achievement. He also knows that there isn't a chance in hell that Majority Leader Harry Reid would let anything like that happen. What Cruz was trying to do was to set down a marker, to remind everyone that Republicans unanimously opposed Obamacare when it was working through the legislative process, and that the Democratic Party and the politicians that fly under its banner are solely responsible for what is coming.
• Of course, many of Cruz's colleagues objected to Cruz's approach, which they viewed as grandstanding, and said as much. It is astonishing to imagine a United States senator might be grandstanding, I know, since it never happens. And besides that, Cruz hasn't been in the joint long enough to be allowed to strut like a peacock. It just isn't done. The guy just doesn't have any manners, despite going to Princeton, or something. Cruz's primary critic, Sen. John McCain, gave an apt demonstration of why Republicans so richly deserve the designation "Stupid Party." Anyone who worries about collegiality in a body where Harry Reid is in charge is, well, stupid.
•  What will ultimately sink Obamacare is that it will make people's lives more miserable, especially in ways that are irritating. The websites for the various healthcare exchanges are already turning out to be a disaster, unable to calculate accurate pricing because of the complexity involved in determining whether a rate should be subsidized or not. And while Obama and his acolytes have been crowing in recent days that rates are "lower than expected," that begs the obvious question that the compliant media rarely ask: whose expectations are we talking about here? And what about this promise?

• The biggest symbolic thing the Republicans could do is insist that Congress, and everyone else in the federal government, enter the Obamacare system. No waivers, no special treatment. Make everyone in Washington who draws a paycheck from Uncle Sam participate fully in the program. And then, make sure the law is fully enforced. No waivers for Cadillac union plans, or for McDonald's, or for anyone else. No special pleading. Everyone in the pool.

The bottom line is that you can't solve the problem of Obamacare by defunding it, at least when Obama sits at the Resolute Desk and Harry Reid wields the gavel. But if you make the problem universal, you're more likely to gain the political support needed to do something about it later on. Barack Obama is leaving in 2017, one way or another. His signature achievement might be leaving then, too.