was officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or as the Affordable Care Act (ACA),

but was more popularly known as Obamacare. The bill’s opponents’ claims ranged from the charge that the changes
were unconstitutional and would add $750 billion to the deficit, to extreme claims about the inclusion of things like

the implantation of microchips and so-called “death panels” that decide which critically-ill patients receive care and

which do not.
388 16 • Information, Risk, and Insurance

Why did people react so strongly? After all, the intent of the law is to make healthcare insurance more affordable, to

allow more people to obtain insurance, and to reduce the costs of healthcare. For each year from 2000 to 2011,

these costs grew at least double the rate of inflation. In 2014, healthcare spending accounted for around 24% of all

federal government spending. In the United States, we spend more for our healthcare than any other high-income
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