> Obamacare was, and is, a disaster, driving up costs while producing worse outcomes. I'm not sure I'd call it a disaster, but I will agree that ACA did absolu

> Obamacare was, and is, a disaster, driving up costs while producing worse outcomes. I'm not sure I'd call it a disaster, but I will agree that ACA did absolutely nothing to address the core issue: Health care is just too expensive. I crashed my mountain bike in the summer of 2022, broke my arm and scraped up my knee real bad, though managed to put my bike back on the rack on my car and drive to the ER one-handed. They did an X-Ray, confirmed the breakage, gave me an arm sling and a prescription for painkillers, and cleaned up my knee. Total visit was 20 minutes. Without insurance, it would have cost me nearly $3,000. $3,000 for 20 minutes of work between an X-Ray tech, 1 doc, 1 nurse, and 1 person at the front desk. I understand that there's overhead, but I still think that cost was 5x what it should have been.