Maggie's Farm

MissT, here's another fix. Congress exempted itself, and other "powerful" interests. That, of course, is always a key crookedness "tell".

So, require Congress to live by what it forces others to live with. It would be illegal - a crime - for Congress or US government employees to be outside the healthcare system required of ordinary citizens. Anyone could sue for treble damages to enforce this "what is sauce for the taxpayer is sauce for the Congresscritters" law.

Here's a good replacement plan.

Situation Anaysis:
Much waste is from emergency - room visits by uninsured people in cities.
Medical schools give admission favors to students from rural areas, and very large admission advantage for "affirmative action".
Our military pays tuition for medical students in the servies on condition that they serve a set number of years in DoD.
Some minimal level of medical care and access should be made available to citizens.

Solution:
The Government sets up "doc-in-a-box" offices in neighborhoods of cities with high uninsured areas, and in rural counties without doctors.
Upon medical school admission favoritism, rural students agree to serve for a salary in a rural clinic for 6 years, and affirmative action admittees agree to serve for a salary in the city clinics (just like the military) for 6 years. Patient visits are "free", but at a cost to taxpayers which is much less than crooked health-system-destroying "obamacare" with its complicated overhead, and at much lower cost than use of hospital emergency rooms for routine care.

Oh, and no $100,000 sex change surgery on the taxpayers.

As Oliver Wendell Holmes put it in sterner days in the famous Buck v. Bell involuntary sterilization case, "three generations of imbeciles is enough". So free contraception is OK, because it voluntarily improves the gene pool and saves the thereby unconceived children from horribly unwanted, brutal lives.

Sweetpea - brilliant ! It might even get better care for veterans, because they are so poorly regarded by liberals now. The drop-in, uninsured-neighborhood "doc-in-a-boxes" would also be available for office visits for vets, who now have to wait until they die to get an appointment. I like your idea A LOT. (sorry for yelling, but it is an exiting idea)
The Drs. could still be staffed from rural and "affirmative action" special"admission favoritism, plus those med students taht have public-funded scholarships (like DoD-funded med students) who put in 2 years of service for each year of med school funding.

exactly right- topdown scams are always for the "in crowd slushfund crooks.
Remember the ~$1 Billion software obamacare software contact to a company (Epic?) which gave ~$40 million for the obamas, IIRC who'se "saleswoman" was Michelle obama's roommate?