Exactly right. The feds have to figure out how to get the care out of the doctors, hospitals, and pharmas without paying for it. Only way to do that is to take over the market, and make all other care outside that market illegal.
The interesting part, and really the only part they are having a tough time with, is how do they tell the trial lawyers they’re services are no longer necessary? If the government is the only supplier, then you can’t really sue them.
Also, since they are the only supplier of health care, the industry that supplies gauze, syringes, tape, scalpels, crutches, etc is going to shrink too. Perhaps to the point where a survivor per supply left.
Which touches on another thought. How much of a first-aid kit will the government let you have?
Will anything more than a Band-Aid be available OTC, or will you have to have a permit for a roll of gauze and some 4X4's in your private posession?
How about folks who have a need for diabetic supplies, etc? Will they be able to keep enough on hand for an emergency situation, or will they have to wait for the FEMA folks to show up?
Questions abound, but the free market is better at solving our problems than the Government has ever been.