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LOL. That's because the bills are getting paid by printing monopoly money, increasing inflation and the national debt. Food and other inflation that all Americans are paying is paying for the cost of medical care. You guys are playing a shell game with the money to make such claims for your politically biased agenda.The ACA ushered in the lowest era of health care cost growth on record. That's why its new spending ended up costing hundreds of billions of dollars less than predicted, and why its Medicare savings ended up being hundreds of billions of dollars more than expected. Thirty percent of the long-term budget projection for spending on major health programs has melted away since the ACA passed, even though two new major health programs were created by it. Before the pandemic hit, health spending as a share of GDP had barely budged since the passage of the ACA (the first decade where that's ever happened), even as 20+ million people gained coverage.
In reality, it's a pretty remarkable story.