I think even the GOP has realized that Americans want access to low cost health insurance...better than the high cost, low benefits junk plans that were peddled by health insurance companies before Obamacare.
It is unlikely that we'll return to the days when private health insurance companies motivated by profit dictated what people got, pricing the vast majority of average Americans out of the health insurance market. The problem was so severe and pervasive, that ERs became the default medical facilities for those without insurance, putting severe pressures on the system of health care providers, and eventually putting many private medical centers out of business, or at least out of the ER business. It required the government to step in to try to fix the problem...
Ideally, there would be a subsidized basic health care system for all, and a higher tiered private health insurance level for those who want it and are able to pay for it. Otherwise, we'll return to the ER system of medical coverage for those who can't afford health insurance.
Note, there are non-profit medical care providers and health insurance providers who say their models can compete with for-profit private companies: Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Kaiser Permanente are the biggest national systems...most states have their own, independent non-profit health providers
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