The Affordable Care Act is responsible for directing the cost of care for the uninsured away from those who already have insurance back to those who are going to use the care themselves. In our current system the unmet cost of providing 'free' healthcare to those individuals who lack coverage but use services, typically in the hospital emergency room, is absorbed by those who currently have insurance in the form of higher rates. By insuring as many people as possible, the cost burden is put back on those who will actually use the care, the previously uninsured. This only sounds complicated when filtered through Movement Conservative mouth pieces whose sole interest is greed.
