This guy might as well write, “I’d like to make a pro-life case for abortion on demand. It’s not as heretical as it sounds...”
Yes.
It.
Is.
An economic question isn’t the same as a moral one. There is no conservative case to be made for taking a human life.
Government already regulates health care. The question is whether it should also pay for it. There is already rationing in our health care system based on availability and price.
Every legitimate function the government performs that is universally accepted involves take care of the public interest. Building roads, dams, airports, electrification, prisons and schools are examples of things the government has run in the past and runs today. Health care, which affects every one is also a public interest.
No matter how its paid, we are all affected in one way or another.