I guess I'll comment on this all from a more broad viewpoint. Let's go back decades, shall we?
-Healthcare is affordable.
-Government/Colleges step in. Gov passes laws helping certain aspects of healthcare industry do what they like. Colleges slowly begin to increase the cost of medical schooling.
Schooling, lawsuits, insurance, materials for health care providers, all of these things skyrocket.
Healthcare is no longer affordable.
Many people can no longer afford health insurance, so they don't have it.
People getting services but not being able to pay for it leaves providers in the lurch. Prices go up even more.
Even more people can no longer afford health insurance, so they don't have it.
Government steps in again, makes health ins mandatory, starts subsidizing insurance, thus making the issue worse.
This entire thing is a fucking disaster...the "affordable health care act" is not what we needed to fix it.
My insurance in 2000 was $40/week for a family plan. Now, just 16 yeas later, it is $220/week. My deductibles we $500/person, $1000/family. Now, $1500/person, $5000/family.
All of this in just 16 years.
Obama care is a band-aid slapped on a gushing artery.