text: You are comparing the costs of premiums, to the cost of running a hospital.  Premium costs went up because A LOT more people have healthcare now than did before and that now includes a lot of people with a lot of pre-existing conditions.
  
  Again, the fact is, charity health costs that hospitals pay under Obamacare, have gone DOWN.  That is a fact.  Sorry if that does not fit in your narrative, but thats just what it is.  What that specific hospital charges for its services is dependent on that specific hospital.  Unless that hospital is in a group with set expenses (like Kaiser, for example), your medical costs could be very different depending on which hospital you go to.  Saving $2million in "charity expenses" does not all of a sudden mean that your ER visit is going to cost $50 less than what you were paying before.  Thats not how it works.  The fact that you think thats how these things work only proves you just gobble up GOP talking points and dont do any research on your own.