A profoundly freedom based approach runs afoul of a compelling obstacle — the horrendously low labor participation rate.
Automation has destroyed a lot of jobs and you can’t retrain a 50 yr old toll collector to be a software engineer, and even if you could, that person faces 4 yrs of healthcare needs — at age 50 when they will need it.
Best to get rid of Obamacare and proceed as the article discusses . . . some sort of tax incentive way to match the subsidized prices on Obamacare premiums as they are now. If you repeal and step away, that labor participation disaster we face would have more people with no insurance (and thus no healthcare) than there ever was before.
After some years to fix the LPR, maybe you can scale back any Trumpcare help.
I think the Price proposal is the best that is ready to go.
Obamacareless needs to go (as much as contract law allows).
We need to steer the medical industry to be more cost-efficient and lower-priced and place the clear majority of it into a true market system within about eight years at most.