Hello hvilleherb,
It was working for those of us who were working.
The cost was increasing faster than wages were increasing. That's not working. Nobody was happy with that except the billionaires getting super-rich off the for-profit health care industry.
Even if you thought that was working for you, and you were working; before the PPACA you had no guarantee that you would not be fired for becoming to ill to work.
And after your job is gone then there goes your insurance, too. Where was the guarantee that you would not be fired and lose insurance just because you became too ill to work (something which could happen to anybody?) And that did happen to many people. People lost everything they ever worked for, all of it taken away by the very rich. Just like a crook would say: 'Your money or you life.'
Nobody who had that happen would say it was working for them.
If that happened, and you lost your insurance, and you were still suffering from a prolonged condition, then the insurance companies would refuse to cover your 'preexisting condition.'
I'm glad if that never happened to you.
But it could have.
That's why the for-profit health care industry was never a workable idea.
That's why a socialist model has distinct advantages and guarantees over the capitalist model for health care.
Obamacare fixed that.
Maybe it wasn't ideal, but at least it fixed that.
Now we can do better.
We have learned that we can do better.
They do better in other countries, and we can see that it is working for them.
We need to make it work for us too.