“…and if your employer does offer health care, we’re gonna work with your employer to lower premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year…”
-(Barack Obama, repeated approximately 1.6 billion times)
This was NOT some minor aspect of the whole health care debate. It was a central, mantra-like selling point specifically designed to placate the country into believing the Affordable Care Act would be a huge cost benefit to one-and-all: