>>you're going to be able to find people who it didn't work for - like the people who's rates went up. The fact that millions of people have insurance that didn't have it before doesn't matter to these people

In 2015, health care spending grew at the slowest rate since they started recording it in 1960. Yet some people pretend that cost increases only started with the ACA. Yeah, Thanks Obama- for delivering the lowest healthcare cost inflation in 50 years. (Cue the annual "expert" claims that the costs are (finally) about to balloon.)

This time there will be premium increases for a number of reasons, not least that too many plans are still full of middle aged or older folk rather than surplus-producing youngsters, but a lot of the shrieking is based on insurer's "requested" premiums to participate in ACA. Gee, honest John insurers never would request higher ACA premiums than they need or expect, so the figures must be true. Alternatively, lets wait and see whose premiums do what as the ACA matures (tip: people on underpriced plans or plans dominated by oldsters can expect bigger increases. If you're in Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon or Pennsylvania then overall the plans in your state lost money last year. So brace yourself. Blame underwriting, not Obama, and ask what you can do to attract profitable youngsters to sign up to your plan. ;-) )