40 million uninsured = 13.5 million households approximately.
Give each household 4000 HSA = 55 billion a year?
Everyone would be buying off the marketplace as with food stamp users going to Krogers and not to the gov’t grocery store.
That’s Trump’s ideal in my mind.
We’ll just have to wait and see.
The uninsured population (for the most part) get free care in every ER in the country, right now, and they have done for 31 years.
The notion that, if they were given money, they would be writing checks to hospitals is ludicrous. They don’t pay for medical services, they never have, and they never will.
YOU pay for their services, through an incredibly complicated and stupid system of payment from your employer if you have one, insurance that isn’t really insurance, and wealth transfers through taxation and much higher costs for any bills you can be screwed into paying.
All “full repeal” will do is increase the magnitude of your responsibility to pay for all those uninsured through the mechanisms described above.