Will Obamacare succeed where term limits failed?

[Montmorency]

The total cost of care cannot be lower and must be significantly higher.

Nonsense. The list of treatments, tests, medications, etc. that are identical from country to country yet 5, 10, 20, or more times as expensive in the United States is of untold length. The fact of the matter is that there is a price-race between hospitals and insurance agencies and that obliterating the highly-inflated costs of the medical sector would easily permit the underfunded individuals that ACA purports to service to obtain affordable insurance on their own initiative.

Costs for health care cannot go down and must go up.

No, no, and no. This is an extremely dangerous position to take - just pay, and pay, and pay, and who cares why it costs so much or where the money is going, just keep paying!