ObamaCare was only the latest phase of efforts to impose bureaucratic standardization on health care. Repealing it, with or without replacing it, still leaves behind a broken system hobbled by decades of government regulations and bureaucracy that have sharply driven up the cost of health care for patients and health care professionals.
And everyone else.
Repealing ObamaCare might reduce the scope of socialized medicine, but government regulations have already been embedded and layered in deeply across the health care spectrum. Bureaucracy continues to drive the insane spikes in health care costs. It has made health care too expensive to afford for patients and too expensive to practice for many doctors.
All of that needs to change.
Repealing ObamaCare won't fix the core problem that government intervention has made health care too expensive to afford for patients while forcing doctors and hospitals to merge into bigger bureaucracies to survive the regulatory environment. It will only ease it. At best.
We need to look beyond ObamaCare to rethinking the role of government in health care. And that means finding ways to remove as many regulations and bureaucracy cost layers as possible. Instead of trying to create a single vast health care system whose inefficiencies and bureaucracies make it too expensive and unsustainable to exist, we should create a genuine health care market where choice is an organic reality instead of a buzzword. We should empower patients and doctors to connect with as little bureaucracy in the middle as possible. Then we might actually have the health care we used to have.