re: What is the REAL reason we can not go back to the old healthcare system.

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The cost of medical machinery has ballooned with new technology, not unlike an iPhone.

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iPhones are a bad example. they're so cheap (compared to their utility and status) that poor people buy them quite often

but to get back to your point. your argument is that costs have increased. this wasn't the argument behind implementing the ACA

the argument, primarily, was "23 million uninsured people" and the ACA itself really doesn't do anything to address costs (especially technology-based costs