Uncompensated care in the US for 2013 was $85 billion (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kff.org&#x2F;uninsured&#x2F;report&#x2F;uncompensated-care-for-the-uninsured-in-2013-a-detailed-examination&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kff.org&#x2F;uninsured&#x2F;report&#x2F;uncompensated-care-for-the-u...</a>). Which may seem like a lot, but it&#x27;s a drop in the bucket compared to the total health care spending of $3.8 trillion (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;danmunro&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;annual-u-s-healthcare-spending-hits-3-8-trillion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;danmunro&#x2F;2014&#x2F;02&#x2F;02&#x2F;annual-u-s-h...</a>). The alleged problem of people deliberately not buying health insurance and then freeloading when they get sent to the emergency room just isn&#x27;t a significant factor. But the ACA cleverly uses that as a pretense to force young and healthy people to pay far more than the fair market value for insurance policies, as a way to disguise subsidies to others.