Was Obama care a Pyrrhic victory?

pyrrhic / pĭr'ĭk / noun

A victory that is accompanied by enormous losses and leaves the winners in as desperate shape as if they had lost.

In use: Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications -- but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.
-- Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "A Revolutionary Itinerary", The Atlantic, April 2001

History: This expression alludes to Kind Pyrrhus of Epirus, who defeated the Romans at Asculum in a.d. 279, but lost his best officers and many of his troops. Pyrrhus then said: "Another such victory and we are lost." In English the term was first recorded (used figuratively) in 1879.

There is also a Cadmean victory.

A victory attained at as great a loss to the victor as to the vanquished.

History: c.1600, from Gk. Kadmeia nike  "victory involving one's own ruin" [Liddell & Scott], from Cadmus  (Gk. Kadmos ), legendary founder of Thebes in Boeotia and bringer of the alphabet to Greece. Probably a reference to the story of Cadmus and the "Sown-Men," who fought each other till only a handful were left alive.