Not to worry.
Obama will be so focused on salvaging Obamacare, it will remain a threat and a battle line through the election.
Which could help us greatly if played correctly. Because Bobo will simply promulgate a rehash of what was hated. He will be unrepentant. It's his nature.
On the other hand, people forget that the GOP had a nice cache of reforms that they presented in contrast, when their goal was rightly extending some sort of affordable coverage to the hard-core uninsured (legal US citizens only), at the time something like 34 million. That's what the mushy middle wants to see.