[jdlshore]

Same here. My family is healthy and yet my (self-employed) health costs were increasing by double-digit percentages every year pre-Obamacare. Go back and look at the news articles for that time. Lots of articles about small businesses unable to afford health care insurance for their employees, statements about salaries remaining stagnant because health costs were a larger and larger part of total compensation. Not to mention the rampant coverage refusal from insurance companies. (I even ran into that practice after mentioning to my doctor one time that my back was sore from picking up my infant son. It went in my medical file as "acute back pain" and bam, back conditions excluded on my policy. Even after jumping through hoops and getting a letter from my doctor.)

Once Obamacare kicked in, my health costs dropped nearly in half. It may not be perfect, and I blame the right-wingers for preventing it from being improved, but it solved a very real problem. Things are undeniably better now.