Basically, they’d have to replace it with something else at this point.
The issue, which existed years ago and is still the overall issue...is plain old cost. The idea of some operation costing $17,900, and then you go to some European countries and find cost controls built into the system, and the same surgery or treatment is $9,900. Then you start to ask why. That’s what the Democrats and Republicans should have asked decades ago, and should have centered upon instead of this contrived distribution game.
Gripping onto the issue that some junkie will show up at the hospital and get $22,000 of service to save his life and then he walks out two weeks later, never paying that debt with insurance or cash...merely means that we all get stuck with his $22,000 of service to keep him alive another week, another month, or another year.
I guarantee you that much of the extra cost is to cover everyone’s malpractice insurance. We are a really litigious culture. Get the fraudulent lawsuits out of medicine and watch the results. Of course, Obamacare did nothing about the frivolous lawsuits as the Dem Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Personal Injury attorneys.