You won’t like the answer but here it is: there is no “free market”/simple repeal health care LAW that can get through congress. Too many people have lost policies under Obamacare, and now the public is conditioned to expect that some of those will be made up.
French (a neverTrumper, BTW) notwithstanding, IMHO the best way to reduce the scope of government’s role in health care is get something in place, then whittle, and whittle.
Although ultimately it did not achieve its objective of preventing a civil war, the Compromise of 1850 is a good example of how to do this: Henry Clay tried to get it all at once, satisfying everybody. But he could never get everyone on board. However, Stephen Douglas stepped in and found that he could get each part of the Compromise passed individually by picking off certain senators.
I think ultimately this has to be the approach. It’s much harder, and will take longer than if we had the votes-—but we don’t, and to keep pretending that the Senate will back a full repeal with people like Collins and Murkowski in there, well, it’s fantasy.
“there is no “free market”/simple repeal health care LAW that can get through congress.”
Probably not.
Regardless, ..
Is your way of phrasing this as a “free market” issue a way of attempting to avoid the real issue - that being the legality or illegality regarding the constitutionality of federal government controlled healthcare?
Federal government controlled healthcare is ILLEGAL! It is TYRANNY!
This is not a “free market” issue.
State government controlled healthcare is legal. Then the discussion we can have is whether or not it should be implemented in a “free market” manner or not. Massachusetts Romneycare is an example.
When it was determined the federal government should have control over alcohol, an amendment was passed; and thus began prohibition. The legal federal government control over alcohol.
If it is such a good idea for the federal government to control healthcare, then pass the damn amendment. No amendment - no federal control!
I'm very reluctantly coming to this conclusion myself. It's not the ideal way, of course, but it may in reality be the only practical way to actually do it.
If both President Trump and the House Freedom Caucus can sign off on a bill to get the process of repealing/replacing Obamacare started, then I've decided I will defer to their collective judgement, and trust the President to see the process through to a satisfactory conclusion...
Lots of all-or-nothing folks here that have trouble grasping the big picture - they're shooting for the "nothing" option so they can have something to bitch about.