Common Sense wrote:

As you all know I screamed and yelled about this form the day it passed. Remember it passed the Senate in the dead of night on December 24 2009. And then the Supreme court ruling…. It’s a tax! When we were told time after time it’s not a tax.
Keep your Dr! Keep your health care insurance! It’s not a tax! It will save you $2500 per family! All lies!
 
The administration has done everything they can to try and get people to embrace the
failed program. Spend Hundreds of millions on web sites and PR for what?
Made change after change in the law to convince people this was a good thing?
States exchanges failing after wasting millions.
 
And the employer mandate has not gone into effect yet. Another change to the law.
When this occurs millions more will be forced off their existing policies.
 
Now we are waiting on the Supreme court ruling that could stop the federal subsidy to
any state that did not operate (PA) their own ACA site as written in the law.
 
 The big increases coming next year are going to harm many families.
 
The Affordable Care Act?  Up to a 30% increase for 2016?
 
 
Nancy Pelosi’s famous words.
 
We will have to pass it to see what is in it?
 
 
 

Well, it's not a tax. And I will certainly acknowledge that it has (perhaps temporarily) done some real good for some people. 

But from where I sit, which is solidly in the middle class, I have seen the ACA drive people out of employee sponsored insurance (typically not employees themselves, but their families) and into heavily regulated insurance marketplaces with less choice and higher costs.

I'm just one voice on the matter and I'm not going to be joining the Tea Party over it, but I'll listen to anyone who wants to take a hatchet to the parts of the ACA I mentioned above.

The Health-Cost Problem Is Coming Back

This article by Drew Altman in my mind takes aim at the real problem. It is a problem not necessarily of the ACA, but the overall issue is a lack of a coordinated policy to control costs and the problem lies with both political parties. I agree with his last statement. 

We have no national policy on health-care costs and will not have one anytime soon; liberals, conservatives and health care’s big interests could never agree on one. As the discussion turns back to costs, current efforts in the public and private sector, however fragmented and uncoordinated, will need to step up their game.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/05/08/the-health-cost-problem-is-coming-back/