How the Affordable Care Act made healthcare unaffordable

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“We’ve got to make sure that nobody has to worry about high healthcare premiums,” former president Barack Obama said at a recent Democratic rally. “We have a lot of work to do.”

The high cost of health insurance has become a central issue for Democrats campaigning to seize control of Congress. It’s not a made-up issue: Average premiums have increased more than 40% in the last four years, and have more than doubled in the past decade.

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