Here's the problem with the ACA. It's simple.

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22. There's another huge problem that you can't blame on the insurance companies

because it applies to single-payer health care systems, too. Price-gouging by the drug companies. The latest medication for cystic fibrosis, for example, costs more than $300K a year. It's an effective drug that extends lives, so no one wants kids to be denied this. So the drug company can price it however they want, and know they won't hit much price resistance.

So the insurers and state and national health systems try to fight back with formularies, and then everyone blames them if an expensive, worthwhile drug isn't on it.

Also, with regard to the initial high-profile poster, he was posting something about the ACA that isn't true. He said that a "friend" told him that insurers outside the exchange would ban his wife for having a preexisting condition. But the truth is that the ACA's regulations cover all insurers, both in and outside the exchanges. Insurers can no longer deny people with preexisting conditions, or charge them extra, or dump them if they get expensive illnesses, or impose annual or lifetime limits.

There are plenty of VALID criticisms to make about the ACA. We should limit ourselves to ones based on actual fact -- not lies about what the law says.