Privatization of Social Security and a return to indemnity insurance for catastrophic illness and MSAs for normal health expenditures would bring on an economic golden age in the U.S. Add an NRST and abolition of income reporting, and a return to true confidentiality of bank information, and the U.S. would sit astride the global economy for 1000 years.
It all starts with the basic human right of every human being to own the fruits of their hard work, good decisions, and responsible acts. When government owns the fruits of human beings hard work, good decisions, and responsible acts (in part or whole) society is robbed of these positive human actions upon which any civil society is based.
The simplest solution to the health care crisis is making health insurance benefits taxable to the employee. The current overinsurance will disappear, and medical care will get competitive.