When is a Law Actually a Law?

"One faction of a party doesn't get to shut down the government to fight the results of an election"
President Obama as quoted by CNN 30 September, 2013

So they're basically arguing about Obamacare.  Forty million people in the United States have NO health care.  That's about the population of a small country.
Nothing will change for people who already have health care through employers.  The government-backed initiative will provide a health care option for people who have none.
The law was
1) approved by congress
2) ratified (found constitutional) by the supreme court
3) tested politically in an election
4) the house has voted 45 times to repeal it but was not successful
So when will our elected leaders call it a law?

"I'm standing on the fundamental right of every American, and that is the right to be left alone."
John Colberson, Republican-Texas, as heard on CNN 30 September 2013