CarterPrice

There are no death panels in the law.

You won't necessarily be able to keep your exact insurance.

It will vary substantially state to state.

Researchers at the Urban Institute found that it would reduce "job-lock" where people are locked into jobs because of the insurance only.

There were concerns that the individual mandate was not constitutional because it compelled people to buy a product, though SCOTUS ruled that it was OK. They did strike down the Medicaid expansion piece of the law as it was written because it was coercive to states (http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9706.html).

I can't comment on their motives for shutting everything down.

Those statements certainly did not capture all of the nuances of the law, but for most people with insurance, there won't be an impact.

Great questions,

The US is on a path to spending 20% of our GDP on health care. Most other developed countries spend less than 10%. So in is certainly possible that a different model could result in much lower costs. I haven't done the same level of analysis on applying these alternate systems to the U.S. and can't really answer that in detail.

I'm not sure if there is a wall of Nobel prize winners, though the wikipedia page has a wall of them. I suspect most people here have seen the movie but it is not mandatory (maybe recommended).