No, I disagree with you on that. The ACA does nothing to forward the life expectancy and isn't designed too either. It is designed with death panels and this was done not to control costs, but as a means to eliminate the less useful. As Meeker said decades ago regarding minimum wage and the role of the state in these people's lives:
... better that the state should support the inefficient wholly and prevent the multiplication of the breed than subsidize incompetence and unthrift, enabling them to bring forth more of their kind.” - Royal Meeker, U.S. Commissioner of Labor, under Woodrow Wilson
Their goal has nothing to do sympathy of the poor bastards, but the eventual elimination of them because of their behavior.
Perfect.