In his winning speech he should take a shot at Huckabee for not running for the WINNABLE seat in past Senate elections.
I think we might keep Democrat care, at least the parts that pry open state markets. Full repeal would be a good thing, but then we’re back where we started.
What we need is a sweeping Commerce Clause attack on the hyper-regulation of the health care industry. Keep in mind you don’t need insurance, you need access. Much of that access is denied by means of restrictive zoning, permitting and licensing inter and intra-state.
If food grown for ones own consumption is “in interstate commerce” then so are the regulatory schemes of every state in the union. What we want is to get from here to the free market. You can do that with a few narrowly focused laws:
1. Medical transparency - doctors must post their prices and so must insurance companies per procedure
2. Freedom to purchase insurance nationwide.
3. Freedom to purchase medicine/medical care. Stop the FDA from restricting medical devices and pharmaceuticals. They can still publish the risks and give negative reviews, but let Underwriters Laboratory and other insurance firms decide what risk is acceptable. If you’re dying of your disease and an intervention is promising who cares if it might threaten your life, you’re dying already. Take the risk and contract to indemnify given the risk.
4. Eliminate the zoning restrictions granting a hospital a geographic monopoly. Let doctors and medical professionals set up shop wherever they want. Eliminate the restrictions on prescriptions, licensing, permitting across state lines, etc.
Why do you need a prescription for eyeglasses when a smartphone app can tell you what you need and you can order it online?