We get it. Medical care in this country is as opaque as it is expensive. But that's been around long before PPACA. It's still here. And it will no doubt outlive Obamacare.

So it's more than a little misleading to spend 10 minutes of pricey primetime airtime blaming the law for how confusing medical billing is. It's intellectually dishonest.

Speaking of only talking about the problems – while neglecting solutions – the new (giddy) Congressional leadership got on the air exactly one week later. Speaker John Boehner and Mitch McConnell sat down with Scott Pelley and spoke at length about what's wrong with Obamacare. And that's fine.

But Pelley pressed them, pointing out that it's an increasingly common complaint from voters that Republicans have yet to provide any kind of alternative – let alone a viable one.

"So how do you do it? What's the Republican plan?" Pelley wondered out loud.

Boehner struggled to respond (which is still more than McConnell did).

"We're, we're working on this. Having discussions amongst our members, got a lot of divergent views about how best to go back to a doctor/patient relationship that's revered," Boehner stammered.

He also managed to wander across a few of the typical talking points: malpractice reform, greater state-level control, as well as the old "buying insurance across state lines" bit.

I'm sorry, but that's simply not going to be enough next year when it's time to elect the president who will no doubt determine PPACA fate. And it's going to take more than stuttering and complaining. Simply put, the obstructionism of the Republican Party is as unsustainable as PPACA itself.

It's not enough to be against something. That's easy. It's a helluva lot harder to be for something. Something better. But I've railed on this so much already; I'm almost against that now, too.

This isn't rocket science – which is probably a good thing – given the collective IQ of our elected officials.