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>Your other problem is that before O'Care the US already paid far more than everybody else but got worse care according to the Commonwealth Institute. So if costs really were rising by another 41%, then there's not just an elephant but a whole herd in the room. Blaming Obama is easy but he is not an elephant.

You don't have to convince me of the problems prior to AHCA. But the problem of our president is sweeping legislation that only makes matters worse - and then he picks and chooses which parts of the law to enforce, to coincide with elections. Most of the major actuaries are predicting two more rounds of premium increases over the next 12 months - destroying the message of "affordable". I am going to continue with the fact that middle and lower middle income Americans have been badly treated under this Administration until someone provides compelling evidence to the contrary.

"Blaming Obama" is not easy - it's required. Zero credibility and zero project management experience. Anyone with business acumen would have started with targeted legislation around pre-existing conditions. What he and his advocates jammed through would never fly in one billion years as a workable software project plan - so why would any different result be expected here?