Once the government starts providing a benefit without fully paying for it you can't pull it back. ACA was implemented with all the benefits up front and no payment, that was to come later. Regardless if you support it or not it is now an unfunded entitlement with no way out. Again the ability to spend now and pay later has dug us into a much deeper hole. If taxpayers had to pay up real time for all government spending you would see a different group of protesters. We all know but refuse to face the facts that Medicare, Social Security, SS Disability, state and federal retiree benefits, welfare both justified and fraudulent, the cost of illegal immigration,etc etc cannot be paid for but are woven into our society. I hope I'm wrong but I sincerely believe we have gone beyond the tipping point. Any thought or movement towards a balanced budget will accelerate our movement down the drain. Protesting and rioting are on the upswing. Can we recover?