Obamacare continues to build into a substantial campaign issue.
Of the health insurers of the first 14 states to announces 2017 Obamacare insurance rates, 13 wanted at least 12% increases. Most wanted over 20% hikes.
Then Texas announced.

In Texas, Blue Cross and Blue Shield is seeking increases averaging 53.7 percent across its Affordable Care Act plans, according to documents posted online by the federal government. In Oklahoma, Blue Cross and Blue Shield is seeking rate increases that average 49.2 percent.

That number may not reflect the amount consumers actually pay because many people with Obamacare are getting tax credits to pay for their private health insurance.

Like Hillary Clinton, Obamacare is extremely popular among Democrats, but extremely unpopular among everyone else.

While 78% of Democrats approve of ObamaCare, according to an April survey from the Pew Research Center, 58% of independents and 89% of Republicans disapprove of it.

Obamacare has done little to moderate health insurance costs, while high deductibles are making Obamacare useless to the working poor.
Despite the high insurance costs, health insurance companies are losing money.

Three of the country’s other largest insurers — Aetna, Humana and Blue Cross Blue Shield — have voiced similar concerns over the viability of selling plans on the exchanges beyond this year. And just last month, UnitedHealthcare announced that it would in fact leave the exchanges in all but a “handful” of states next year, jeopardizing hundreds of thousands of health plans....
To stem a further exodus — and responding to insurance industry demands — in November the Obama administration promised to “explore other sources of funding” for payments to insurers. Yet rather than work with Congress, the administration flouted the law entirely — and in this case, that means using tax dollars to bail out insurers left on the exchanges.
CMS simply decided to ignore the law’s requirement to pay the Treasury $5 billion over 2014, 2015 and 2016. In fact, according to a February report from CMS, the agency has flat out refused to make any payments for 2014, and has yet to pay the Treasury a dime for 2015. Officials are instead hoarding those dollars in case larger subsidy payments are necessary to keep more insurers on the exchanges.
In other words, the Obama administration is prioritizing private health insurance companies over taxpayers. Such lawlessness is exactly why people are so fed up with Washington today — special interests get ahead, while American families get the bill.

This is budget trickery, at taxpayer expense, to keep Obamacare afloat until after the November election.
However, a more direct taxpayer bailout is already in the courts.
13 out of the 23 federally subsidized Obamacare Co-ops have since failed. Some of these co-ops are suing the federal government for billions of dollars.

ObamaCare is also bringing out corporate America’s worst crony-capitalist impulses. The health-insurance lobby has teamed up with trial lawyers to sue the federal government—through individual lawsuits and a $5 billion class action—for not following through on a sweetheart bailout deal buried in the law. This provision of ObamaCare would have required taxpayers to bail out insurers for losing money on the health-care exchanges.

To make matters worse, IRS's Chief Risk Officer David Fisher testified under oath that these subsidies to insurance companies wasn't exactly legal.

He testified to telling administration officials that "there was no clear reference in the section regarding the cost-sharing reduction payments to the Internal Revenue Code in the Affordable Care Act" and the "cost-sharing reduction payments are not linked to the Internal Revenue Code, as far as I could tell, directly anywhere."

So to sum this up, Obamacare is very unpopular, is about to get much more unpopular because it's costs are about to jump, it has failed to accomplish most of what was promised, it's on an unsustainable course, and Hillary and other Democrats are going to be forced to justify massive taxpayer bailouts of insurance companies during an election year just to kick the can down the road for a year.

But DKos still thinks this issue is a winner in November.