And how will a government plan make it less expensive?
If costs are too much, cut the military budget. Get rid of the surface Navy.
Defense is a Constitutional function of the federal government. Providing healthcare is not.
I would not like to die at age 66.
When you are 66 you will be eligible for Medicare, or it's replacement. Hang in there.
I believe the Republican plan will be more expensive than Obamacare because it will cover just about every American and not leave 30 million+ Americans (mainly in Republican states) without coverage.
And that's an improvement?
“Defense is a Constitutional function of the federal government. Providing healthcare is not.”
Some history:
“An Act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen[1] was passed by the 5th Congress. It was signed by President John Adams on July 16, 1798. The Act authorized the deduction of twenty cents per month from the wages of seamen, for the sole purpose of funding medical care for sick and disabled seamen, as well as building additional hospitals for the treatment of seamen.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Act_for_the_relief_of_sick_and_disabled_seamen
Article I Section 8 gives the Congress the power to raise “armies”, including armies of doctors.
Remember MASH and ‘Captain Hawkeye Pierce’?
Dr. Constitutional might be made US Army Captain Constitutional.
I suspect Dr. Constitutional would like to sleep in his mansion rather than in an army barracks.
Government has made a mess of health care and it needs to take responsibility to fix (and pay for) the mess it has made.
Also, pre-existing condition exclusions are mainly due to
expensive drugs, which are generally expensive due to drug patents, which the Congress has the Article I Section 8 power to issue.
Congress also has the “necessary and proper” Constitutional power to deal with the pre-existing exclusion problem mess its drug Article I Section 8 (permitted but not Constitutionally required) drug patents have created.