The ACA significantly shored up benefits for members of group plans. It also, I hear and read, provided significant cost controls that helped put the brakes on

The ACA significantly shored up benefits for members of group plans. It also, I hear and read, provided significant cost controls that helped put the brakes on group policy premium increases. Just one aspect of that: Hospitals' uninsured treatments dropped from the mid-teens or worse to around or under 5%. Costs that no longer had to be "spread around" to insured coverage. But a lot of group policy members have no... pardon me, "fucking" clue about this. Study after study has demonstrated this lack of knowledge. And politicians have been complicit in furthering it, along with outright lies casting the ACA in worse light. Not to mention deliberately sabotaging it through their actions, such as not providing promised transition funding written into the law. (For those who don't know, this is a common political ploy: You can write any law you want; if you don't, through the separate appropriations bills, fund it, that law effectively accomplishes little or nothing.) Still, even a superficial examination of the U.S. medical field inclusive of insurers, shows it to be awash in money. Every fucking middleman (that includes many providers, from products to services -- and the suits who now own them) pushing to grab as much of it as possible, before the rest trickles down to the patient (actual care). Pardon my vitriol, but I've encountered far too much of this, first hand.