Comment: As usual for the Denver Post, the comments are rife with misinformation, misunderstanding, ignorance and outright hoaxes. 

The ACA was not "designed to fail" and create Single-payer as the only alternative. It was a wholly Republican idea from the Heritage Foundation made better by the input of the entire health care industry. Unlike the recent performance of "Twelve Guys Hidden in the Basement," it was the result of years of design and over a hundred Congressional hearings. 

The exchanges, vilified here as containing "moochers" and those precious few paying full fare (envision the latter as all Republicans who walk twelve miles each way to pay their premiums, uphill both ways) are actually a fraction of the actual market which includes everyone with employer plans and open purchases off-exchange. 

What we DO have to fear now is a cynical Republican effort to TRASH the ACA by violating the government agreements on risk pooling and mandate enforcement, failing to promote enrollment.