What's your solution?
Healthcare premiums were rising at unsustainable levels prior to the ACA. For profit healthcare and pharma simply sent bills to insurance companies, the insurance companies don't care what sht costs because they pass it along to the paying consumer along with their cut. Meanwhile, millions of American's are priced out of the game all together, so they show up to the ER like it's a walk-in family practice clinic, all the while tax payers subsidize the cost of that care because ER's are net losers for every hospital system in the country. But that's really not a big deal to them because they just send uncle sam a bill for the tax payers to eat.
If we, American's want to thump our chests about being 'da bestest' wouldn't you agree that middle class families shouldn't have to choose between putting food on the table or paying BCBS in case tragedy strikes? And if the decision is to put food on the table and little Johnny gets cancer, the family is now thrust into bankruptcy.
Perhaps ACA isn't the answer, but at some point it's naysayers are going to have to put up an alternative or sit down.
