In 2009 by almost a two to one margin consumers who could have purchased an individual health insurancepolicy decided that it was a better deal to go without it.
These increases could total up to 13% more than what individualpolicy holders might have had to pay for an insurancepolicy had there never been an Affordable Care Act.
When the day comes that, in the true spirit of entrepreneurial free market enterprise, someone who wishes to leave their job (and their employer provided health benefits) to begin their own business discovers that the acne they suffered as a teenager prohibits them from getting a health insurancepolicy, that is the day such an individual will understand what has been lost.