"Obamacare is a major step in the right direction but yeah, I said, we made some mistakes," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told the Christian Science Monitor this week.

(Funny how he's just now picking up on that.)

Either way, it's odd he only pointed to the subsidies or the 30-hour employee threshold. His crew should really be worried about the Cadillac tax, but then again, maybe he knows something we don't. As in, that provision will never come to pass and was only slipped into the original legislation as a political appeasement move. (And I'm happy to go on record as saying this will be quietly shelved just like the long term care provision.)

But, politics aside (if that's even possible, anymore), PPACA is a massive undertaking that seeks to transform roughly $1 trillion of our nation's economic spending — or about 18 percent. That doesn't happen overnight. Or without a few hiccups.

And at this point, repeal or defunding aren't even viable options. One could safely argue either measure — if they could even muster enough political capital — would cause as many problems as they'd try to solve. I guess you could say we might just be past the point of no return, and the best way forward is to fix it from within.

So what now then?

Well, it'd certainly help if the administration actually listened to brokers. Or, barring that, if the states — particularly the red ones — would wrest control from the feds at the exchange level, where they ensure the broker's role, among other things.

The point is that you can't fight city hall, as a good friend of mine is fond of saying.

Or perhaps, more poignantly, on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, who do we remember today? Malcolm X, the angry revolutionary who wanted to overthrow the system? Or Dr. Martin Luther King, whose peaceful protests for change argued for reshaping the system from within?