8 Charts That Explain the Explosive Growth of U.S. Health Care Costs

Today marks the official rollout of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature health care law. Beginning on October 1, individuals will be eligible to sign up for new health plans administered by the health care exchanges created by Obamacare. In theory, that is. Many state health exchanges are not even close to being operational.

In honor of the current administration’s complete inability to implement the law despite having more than three years to prepare for it, here are 8 charts that help explain why health care costs in have America exploded over the past several decades, and why Obamacare will do nothing to address the problem.