(2) Block-grant Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP to the states for 3 years and then states should completely take it over. Give the states enough money in these block grants to fund nursing home care, mental illness, infectious disease and dental care, and the people who lost their plans under Obamacare and shut down CMS at the federal level. Bar illegal aliens and abortionists from being eligible to any of these block grants.
(3) Completely severe the link between healthcare and insurance companies, government, and employers - get rid of the 3rd-party payer aspect of it, except for high-deductible, catastrophic care. Everyone should have their own private, portable healthcare account that they can use anywhere in the country. Pay for routine and moderate health expenses with a HSA debit card. Pay for the life-threatening and emergency stuff with a low-premium, high-deductible health care plan.
(4) All healthcare expenses - monthly premiums, deductibles, co-pays, and out-of-pocket expenses - should be tax-free.
Exactly—what needs phasing out is the tax deduction for employer-provided insurance. A phased-in extension of the tax deduction is taking it in the wrong direction.
Also, fine—let insurers offer a plan with slacker (up to age 26) coverage. But let them offer plans without it too.
This is just the cold peas of Obamacare pushed around on the plate.