" The architects of the program assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be."

Let's give credit where credit is due.

Republicans consistently refused to fix ANY of the flaws in Obamacare, for fear they'd be primaried.

By contrast, when it became apparent Republicans had screwed up wording in the tax code regarding farmers, Democrats voted to fix it immediately.

"I find it incredible anyone would claim it would bring healthcare costs down"

Maybe you should pick up a history book.

In the decade before Obamacare, inflation was 31%, while medical inflation was 131%, i.e., more than FOUR TIMES INFLATION. Trustees of medical insurance plans were freaking out over the trajectory. (I know; I was a Trustee of a medical insurance fund, and we were freaking out.)

What the ACA did, was bend the trajectory downward. That, combined with the after-effects of the Bush Bust and Bailout, lowered the inflation rate for multiple years, and gave a lot of Health Plans some breathing room.

As regulars know, I've been against the ACA since the start, but I've always said I'd give kudos if it addressed runaway medical inflation.

It did.

"The architects of the program assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be."

Amazing what happened, when Republicans removed the mandate.

"It was sold to us as perfect."

Is this one of those times you lie on purpose, just to get attention?!?

"DingDong is just "creating stories" so that the ... media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people"

Ahhh, the "Look what you made me do!" defense.

Or is it more "If you run out of lies, I can make up new ones!"...?

" The only way the ACA works is getting healthy people to sign up and then not use the care"

Don't look now ... but that's how ALL insurance works.

"that is not how insurance works."

Thanks for telling us you don't understand the equation. That is EXACTLY how insurance works.

ALL insurance is sold with the hope you won't be using it. If too many people are using it, or too many non-users aren't signing up, the insurance company goes broke, or refuses to issue (see home flooding in FL and fire in CA). You've ALWAYS got to have more non-users than users.

"WE 100% KNOW are horrible insurance risks as they will are 100% certain to use huge amounts of medical procedures."

That's why every time Republicans sat down at The Heritage Foundation to come up with a national plan, they had to include a mandate for it to balance.

"Rather than charging these known medical disasters for the actual expected cost of their care, the Dems thought they could force enough healthy people into the system to subsidize them without complaining. It didn't work."

Give credit where credit is due: Republicans came up with the idea. But that was back when they were using Actual Math. Now, Trump can claim he's brought in $17 Trillion, and every MAGAt slurps it up without question.

And I noticed you skipped over Republicans repealing the mandate. That's when O'care got repealed.