Largely correct. Health Insurance and hospital stocks skyrocketed the moment Obamacare was passed.
Hard to estimate. Our pre-Obamacare system was already outpacing inflation by well over 100%. As economists say, trends that cannot continue ... don't. So something was (is) going to break. I doubt you can blame the deep dysfunction of our healthcare system exclusively or even primarily on an initiative as watered-down and modest as Obamacare. Not that people won't try, bless their little hearts.
If this were true, you would see corresponding health data from single-payer systems, showing less efficiency and worse health results. The opposite is true.
What are you basing that on? Other nations have enacted objectively better systems than ours, and have decades of documented experience to back it up. I am continually amazed by the empiricism-free and data-free nature of these sorts of objections.
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