Actually just getting the government out won’t do it. You have to get ALL third-party payers out and go back to a cash-as-you-go basis.
Right now, with all of the paperwork and ridiculous coding games that go on in billing insurers, the providers of course are going to massively inflate prices to cover for those that will be denied for BS reasons, or sit as open receivables for 200 days while the games go on.
Getting all third-party payers out of the system would help, too.