[David R Leifheit]

I'm sorry to hear that some people are having problems with the Affordable Care Act.
The statistics are showing that it has been a benefit to most people.
The increase in policy costs is less this year, below the trend, saving people money.
More people are insured, so hospitals are saving money (hopefully that means prices won't go up). In fact Hospitals are reporting fewer charity cases overall, apparently those with insurance aren't going to the ER anymore.

I know some people have seen increases. Some are due to not looking into other policies and just accepting what the company replaced your current policy with. Others are likely to have just gone up regardless. Also places with the largest increases or the most problems have been the states which did not implement the provisions in the ACA.

The ACA was needed. It is about time something was done about insurance costs. Now if Congress had tried to refine the program instead of waste time, time we paid them for, maybe it would be a better program.