Author and journalist Jonathan Cohn discussed his new book "The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage" on Monday and explained that Obamacare was achieved and has remained in part due to the Republican Party's own lack of focus on health care. "Universal health care is in like the DNA of the Democratic Party right. I mean this has been their crusade day going back to the Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal. Harry Truman tried to do universal health care and it's been this ongoing effort," Cohn said while appearing on Hill.TV's "Rising" When former President Obama was elected 2008, Democrats viewed it as their chance to pass universal healthcare with some compromises built in, Cohn said. He argued that by the time the Affordable Care Act was passed, the GOP had become "more extreme ideologically" and more "instinctively opposed" to Democrats.