I think it's the other way around. Obamacare is like a ball and chain clamped around the Democrats' necks. I believe it's why we're seeing so many senior congressional Dems refusing to run for re-election now. There will be more.
“Obamacare is like a ball and chain clamped around the Democrats’ necks.”
No, think “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173253
Obamacare is an albatross, Friend; a great, huge, dead, mouldering ALBATROSS, and we ought to ensure that the Left WEAR IT until they grovel in the DUST and BEG forgiveness!