I firmly believe this is a VERY BIG issue with voters, and the GOP has been completely asleep on this issue for several decades.
A very, very long time.
Obamacare stood up and addressed all of the people who were not covered. There were a BUNCH of them. Now you want to throw it away?
For what?
What does the GOP have, to replace it with?
What?
The GOP had all of the time in the world. Several administrations. Congress. Everything. So what did they do?
What did they do?
What?
It doesn’t take much to fix the system.
1. Allow health insurance companies to sell to all 50 states.
2. Mandate only one thing: if you are selling health insurance in the USA you must sell a very low cost, very low quality of care insurance policy among your choices. This is like Switzerland does. “Ward care.” Hospitals will have wards to care for the indigent and these cheap policies will cover bare bones Med care in group ward rooms in hospitals.
3. ONLY EMERGENCY CARE provided for free to non insured people in hospitals. MAKE IT SO THAT PEOPLE WILL WANT TO PURCHASE WARD CARE INSURANCE POLICIES because it might save their life or their child’s. No more illegals filling up hospital waiting rooms. If you aren’t on your last breath, out of there. We can’t help you.
Let the insurance companies sell plans of all different kinds across the board, like people buy tv’s today. There will be plans for everyone. Give the companies the freedom. Also, encourage more fee for service Med care and less insurance for doctors visits and the like. Get middlemen out like with car insurance where the insurance is only used for catastrophic things.
A bonus #4 might be to not cover medicines. Medicines for me on my Health Share are not covered. Why would I dare say this? Because medicines in this country have scam prices. If insurance didn’t pick up these astronomical tabs, the actual prices for the medicine would be affordable to all. I had a migraine pill cost over #40 a pill. Bought it from a Canadian pharmacy, made in Europe for the European market, it cost only $7 a pill. If I were buying it in Europe it would be flat out $3 per pill.
Read about how epi pens are no longer affordable. It’s a scam. Big pharma bleeds the insurance companies. That is why I might make one more change and have drugs not covered. Scary but it could end up better than where we are now. Premiums would be so low and Med prices too.
This isnt that hard to fix. Switzerland does health insurance smarter than us.