i heard that a lie can spread around the world before the truth can get out of bed, scratch its arse and tie its shoes 

This world is SO fucked up.

The lives saved is the key bit of this, yet that doesn't erase the fact that a lot of people have been hit hard financially due to ACA.  On the other hand, one could argue those impacted financially were skirting their responsibility to maintain coverage...thinking they were healthy now, so why do they need it?  Like the uninsured driver who's fine, as long as he doesn't hit anyone. 

Anecdotes are a great way to set policy, right? 

Perhaps you should stop to consider that there are at least a couple dozen (probably more) people who are alive  today  to be able to even tell anecdotes of whatever kind due to obtaining insurance through the  ACA (oddly enough, uninsured people who have died already, whose death might have been prevented with access to care provided via insurance, seem unable to tell their stories, so they often are excluded from anecdotal analyses).
And many thousands more have insurance now (and thus access to health care  beyond free clinics and the ER) who didn't before. It's easy to take insurance for granted when you have it. Nice not to have to constantly worry about how sick you can let yourself (or your child) get before you are forced to go to the ER and waste hours there just so they can prescribe asthma medicine that you will have trouble paying for.

 I have many personal anecdotes of lower income people that did not feel like winners from the ACA, but that's just like real life and stuff.

i think there are a lot of people with a similar thought process

we're creatures that have been conditioned to seek complex solutions to complex problems

could there be simplex answers to complex problems?

the affordable care act is what? a thousand pages?

the tax code? thousands of pages?

the compliance costs with these two complex monstrosities is mind boggling

i read where there are twenty five registered lobbyists per rep on the hill

and another twenty five or so per rep that are unregistered?

for the aca i think there were seven or so lobbyists per rep

this type of bribery is the reason that massive amounts political coercion are typically embedded these things

and medicare? the waste and fraud are legendary

the corruption is out of control and it is not sustainable

btw, i'm not holding up gary johnson or libertarianism as a cure all

do i think that principled thought and downsizing dc are reasonable?

or that pointing out bad ideas and the violence or threat of violence used to back them up could help reel this nuttery in?

yes

i don't care who implements good ideas

regards

i don't care who implements good ideas

regards