I'm not getting the "Replace" part of the argument. Why does it need to be replaced with anything ??
To be perfectly honest, a lot of people managed to get healthcare under Obamacare that previously didn't, and all the scarey literature out there has them as losing their healthcare if Obamacare is simply repealed, which most of them won't like, and people are saying would cause them to vote democrat.
So it's a lot like touching social security. Threaten to take away people's retirement check and they get pissed.
As for me, here's my thoughts:
1. The state of healthcare BEFORE Obamacare was equally unacceptable as Obamacare, just in different ways.
2. The situation between different systems (Pre-Obama, Obama, theoretical Republican Replacement) are each different enough to have substantial market distortions. I'd like to avoid too many market distortions.
Personally, keeping in mind that I'm not a lawyer, and there are better ways to state this:
1. Require healthcare providers to provide estimates and price sheets.
2. Pass legislation that encourages charging by illness/syndrome, rather than by procedure.
3. Procedures that fail cannot be charged for. (insert legaleze defining failure)
4. Healthcare savings accounts for everybody. Possibly as modifications to IRAs.
5. Find some way to toss some initial money into said savings accounts for young adults.
6. Really reform the USDA.
7. Health insurance can be sold across state lines
8. People are allowed to buy drugs from overseas. Encourage formation of a watchdog company that makes sure what people are ordering is what they're actually getting.
9. Allow government organizations tasked with buying drugs for various reasons to actually negotiate the prices they pay for said drugs.
