It is almost like placing a small band aid over a large cut that requires stitches. There are so many factors that must be accounted for, that may have been traded off for the lesser of two wrongs. It is going to cost almost 1.993 trillion over 10 years to fund the ACA and all of it’s provisions with a net revenue of 643 billion (factcheck.org).
From the consumer standpoint, a major concern is the affordability of insurance, what are the benefits of the ACA and who actually picks up the bill. It would be expected that with an increase in the demand for insurance, that here will not only be an increase in supply but an increase in price. Research has shown that with an increase in demand that there is an equal increase in supply, yet at some point the demand will exceed the supply or vice versa. In the case of the ACA it can be seen that the demand is exceeding the supply, due to the insurance mandate. Along with increases in demand and