New blow to the US Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

[Jester]

I believe in a world where wishes are fishes and pigs can fly, the ACA would make things more affordable. How can it?

I believe as Nate Silver commented during the political sausage-making festival that preceded the ACA passing, the logic is very Lewis Caroll: Because of the right's utter unwillingness to accept state-run health care, the bill that ended up being passed was surprisingly good at acheiving left-wing goals (increasing coverage, more equitable distribution) and surprisingly poor at right-wing ones (controlling costs).

A strange brew. Not the law I would have passed, but politics is the art of the possible.

It still doesn't address the most glaring flaw in the US system, which is that when you lose your job, you lose your health insurance until you are re-employed.

Really? I thought the whole idea was to create exchanges where low-cost insurance plans that could not discriminate on the basis of pre-existing conditions would be availabe for everyone. Is that not what happened?

-Jester