>>>Health-care planning is large enough it surely qualifies as an industry in its own right. Huge sums of money are spent on legions of presumably very bright people. Calling the final results "through a glass darkly" is as damning an indictment as I can imagine.
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>Yes, but that's your bad paraphrase. KG asked me to prove that had the ACA happened 20 years ago, his family would not be experiencing the turmoil they currently face wrt fibromyalgia that has a speckled history in more than one jurisdiction. You turned that into a story about the totality of healthcare planning.
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>It's a truism that the ACA is new and people are finding their way and some stuff is falling through the cracks.

The ACA will work for a while, just like any other economic measure does. Then ways around it are invented and begin to spread. Then something new needs to be done, which will work for a few years.