You assume that this current broken state was unintentional. I believe this situation is intentional and was predicted and expected. Back when Obamacare was be

You assume that this current broken state was unintentional. I believe this situation is intentional and was predicted and expected. Back when Obamacare was being debated I and many others argued that the best it could do would be to slow the meteoric rise of health care costs because it was painfully obvious (to me at least) that it didn't actually solve the problem. I have no doubt that the politicians knew this as well which was why Republicans fought so hard against it and why Democrats wanted it so bad. I believe they wanted it to come to this. They wanted to demonstrate that even if you force people to get insurance it still wouldn't be enough. It is a real-world application of how, "the compromise" (forcing people to get insurance) doesn't actually impact the price much because health care costs are not controlled by traditional market forces. What is the price, "the market will bear" when someone will die or suffer immensely without treatment?