Separate the government totally from Medicine and Insurance. The only Constitutional authority is the regulation and guarantee of weights and measures which could be extrapolated into truth in advertising, no more. The cost of medical treatment and medicines would come down radically when the medical dollar no longer has to support hordes of insurance and government agents and bureaucrats and the field is open to competition. Access to “healthcare” will be much closer to universal than any government scheme that can be devised. Costs of most of it will be well within the budgets and capabilities of almost all citizens and the charities will take up the slack though that should not be a consideration of the Government. The Constitution does not grant the government the power to regulate personal decisions and welfare. The government is supposed to secure the nation from foreign conquest and interference and to pave the nation with a Rule of Law. The government is not to decide the lives and outcomes of and for its citizens and whoever else it chooses to sequester.
“Separate the government totally from Medicine and Insurance.”
Article I Section 8 protected drugs are the very heart of modern medicine, treating arthritis, cancer, HIV and other infections, etc.