With the Dems and Repubs, you'll never get "home".  The ACA was an opportunity to buy votes while filling the pockets of the "free market" health industry, by forcing people to buy into a market that has little to no cost regulation.  I believe that was its true intent.  The Republicans twist on that only shifts some of those profits around to the people they want to gain from it.

Health care from the Dems or Repubs will forever remain this mess.