[pgyanke]

Price told me unequivocally that reforming the system has to start with fully repealing Obamacare: "It needs to be fully repealed, because the first step out of the gate for Obamacare is a step in the wrong direction and that is for government control over every aspect of health care, so it's hard to fix the system that they have put in place without ending that premise that government ought to be running and controlling health care."

I like this part. Make sure your plan does this. Return control to the free market where it belongs and get government out of the insurance business.

[Owen]

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.