They aren’t going to do any of Trump’s agenda. This is all designed to force Trump to say “screw it” and resign. The only problem with this is that most of these idiots in the Republican Party will be replaced by democrats.
How about this idea?
Make all health care free (health care being carefully defined as essential treatment, optional stuff can be handled by the free market)
Bring down scheduled payments to doctors and providers but make all MDs income tax exempt.
Start a national sports lottery to fund free health care. Right now I believe most Americans have to go to Vegas or a nearby Canadian city to do sports lottery betting (in BC we get massive amounts of betting on NFL games from U.S. visitors or maybe residents using their internet access)
Tax as low as possible to make up the shortfall (this sports lottery if well designed will pay for much of the health care)
Premiums for those who want to participate, not expensive ones
Option to handle one’s own health care using taxed MDs operating their own clinics — provisions for emergency health care for those folks when they need it urgently and unexpectedly
I think something like this would work and would meet everyone’s requirements — those who want universal access, those who want affordable health care, those who want to plan their own medical treatment, and the state’s need for predictability (knowing where to put health care facilities in the future, which would partially depend on how many people went with the state system and how many with the private option).
This is not dissimilar to the situation in some advanced countries (not nightmare socialist systems). It is not a duplicate of the Canadian system, by the way, we have much of the above but not enough private options — however, reports of how bad our system is appear overblown to many Canadians, our system is neither as bad as some say nor as good as it could be.
How much money could a national sports lottery raise?
Probably at least 10 billion dollars a year, maybe more like 100 billion. Why should Vegas get all that money? (or worse, Canada or European websites).
Is there risk in using a lottery option? Not if it’s properly managed. But to reduce the risk to zero, make all betting pool or “toto” style, where winners get a percentage of the house take. That way, you are guaranteed never to fail to raise money through the lottery. The Canadian model for that is 60% back to the bettors and 40% retained by the province (in Canada all lotteries are under provincial control).