I could get behind this act, as a stepping stone back to an actual free market in health insurance and health care, but a GOP nanny state is still a nanny state.
Nanny State PING!
If nanny state light is what will happen, then let’s just go back to what we had before. It was the best health care in the world.
To take care of the uninsured sick, we have a nation in which every county has at least one county health clinic. Add a PA or Nurse Practitioner to each whose numbers jump, and tell the uninsured that the clinic will always be their first stop before going to the local hospital with an authorization for payment from the clinic to the Fed. This would, of course, include pre-existing conditions.
And, of course, allow insurance to be bought across state lines. Initiate tort reform regarding medical care.
You know, I have heard a fair number of conservative and libertarian doctors say they would be ok with a single payer health care system at least temporarily - if only so that health care customers can actually see it laid out for them what they are paying for under a fed run system and can finally understand conceptually that making health care “affordable” for everyone really does mean they foot the bill for everyone else’s poor life choices.