The ACA simply shifted a good chunk of private wealth from self-sufficient taxpayers to government's client groups.
That is the truth. It redistributed income/wealth from the responsible working middle-class without their consent, to the poor.
Oh, and if government involvement and regulation hadn't added enough cost and complication to health care/insurance it added much more.
I do not happen to believe that health insurance is a right. So I say roll the entire thing, back to a point that people buy insurance if they or their employer can afford it. Period.
Government sponsored hospitals can provide minimal, basic and emergency care to those unable to afford insurance or pay their own health care costs.
That worked for my parents raising five children, and for my wife's parents raising six children.
The result of 60 years of government subsidies to the lower rungs of society, has been to make them less responsible, because the negative consequences have all but been removed.
The so-called "poor" often turn out to live better, than the working middle-class.
And these so-called "poor" have learned to keep electing the same political interests, who keep them living better than the working middle class.
Those political interests publish deceptive statistics for employment, for inflation for cost-of--living, etc.
And they blame the very providers of the funds for their folly.
Guess what? Voters talked back last November. No more silent majority while politicians picked their pockets, while calling them names, demeaning their careers, their families, their values, lives, etc.
All I see in this healthcare discussion is words. No numbers. But insurance is a game of numbers. Premiums, deductibles, actuarial tables, experience and modifiers. All absent, instead left to play on emotions.
Simply stated, Obamacare promised it would save money, and it failed. That is the empirical result.
There is a saying" "you can't make chicken salad, out of chicken shite."