$216 sounds like only your part of the payment. Do you know how your employer's contribution (the bulk of the total cost) changed? Sounds like they saved a lot of money.
This guy's company sounds like they changed providers, pushed almost all the cost to the employee (under the mask that it costs the employee the same), is saving a ton of money, but tells the employees to blame the ACA.
While I work for a decent company, they even tried to blame some crap on the ACA trying to explain why the premiums went up this year. Except, they went up the same amount the year before, and the one before that also.