re: EBC Book #1 - Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

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Also, since you mentioned it, can anyone think of any more perfect example of focusing on the short-term effect / effect on special groups (as compared to the long-term effect / effect on all groups) than the ACA?

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100% agree.

Maybe not specifically ACA related, but to expand on your ST vs LT point within healthcare, the creation of medicare and medicaid eventually led to medicare advantage plans, which are some of the best examples of public private partnerships and entrepreneurship i've seen. Unfortunately, It took from 1965 when Lyndon Johnson created medicare to the early 2000's for the government to better instill competition within the segments, but since then companies have been created, funded, and grown based on a shared savings model with these two populations of patients. Public entities can't figure out how to give better care and lower costs, so they partner with entities/entrepreneurs that have better capital allocation models, assume the financing risk of a certain subset of patient population for a per member per month fee (PMPM), and share the savings created by better care coordination and quality of care for these two "expensive" parts of the HC ecosystem. Win-win for public and private sector.