That's a bit oversimplified.
If 0bamacare is repealed, we're returned to the situation before it existed.
And that situation was by no means one which "let market forces do their thing".
That's why any repeal must include provisions which mitigate the situation as it existed before 0bamacare was passed.
Make no mistake: when 0bama initially got this piece of sh!t passed with a Democrat Congress, you can bet your last dollar that they did it in such a way as to absolutely prevent a repeal in the future. They put in every conceivable obstacle, bureaucratic or otherwise. Repeal & replace is a gargantuan task, if anyone expects the situation to improve—not merely improve over 0bamacare, but improve over the situation that existed before 0bamacare.
So any process of repealing 0bamacare must include addressing the conditions that prevailed which led to something like 0bamacare being proposed in the first place.
Governing is hard sometimes, and we should expect it to be especially so in cases such as this.
So everybody take a deep breath. This, too, shall pass...
The problem - like many things government-related - is that people can no longer see the source. The source of skyrocketing health care costs isn’t recent. In fact, it can be traced all the way back to Medicaid and Medicare.
From that point forward, the government has had its finger on the scales of the market - and it’s used that leverage to enact many laws and regulations to increase the amount of force that finger exerts.
If anyone *really* wants to fix healthcare they have to go back and get rid of those two programs and all laws that use those two programs as leverage. Only then will you have a market capable of true price discovery.
But good luck with that. And it’s not just the libs...blue-hair conservatives flip out when you threaten to take “their” stuff.
But if it isn’t done - and soon - the entire healthcare system in the US will collapse under its own weight. That’s not wishful thinking, it’s simple mathematics.