And that's for one young, healthy person! The plans available, coverage, and costs are terrible. I can't imagine how regular workers making < $100k are paying those premiums and they're going up by about $50/year consistently. The bill had many other good provisions, but other than Medicaid expansion (which was turned down once again by mostly baby boomer asshole governors whose demonstrated compassion and empathy levels are so low they don't belong in the human race) none of them actually provides health care. It creates a market, and like you say, not a very good one, and fixes problems that shouldn't have existed in the first place like denying people coverage because they're sick (preexisting conditions) or went a month without coverage.

And this is amazing progress and the best we can expect in America from the mostly baby boomer assholes in power. But if we repeat mindlessly that America is the greatest country on earth enough, we can overlook the fact that it is dead last in healthcare out of all developed countries. Why socialize medicine, pharmaceuticals, and other industries that profit off of people's misfortunes, sickness, and death? Why not profit off of other people's misfortunes, sickness, and death? Die already so I can get rich. That is the American way, after all, and that's why those prices are so fucking high.