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@rochard -- I don't see McCain's vote as a vote to 'take away' anything -- just to debate the issues on the floor of the Senate -- rather clever actually as the vote on the Repeal and Replace lost 43 to 57.
McConnell's plan was for shit -- move on and debate.
@Wilbo -- I think you are really making an argument for some sort of Medicare for all Americans. A single payer governmental healthcare plan. Medicare for all might reduce all of the profit and some of the administrative healthcare costs. The premiums we would pay to the governmental plan *might* be less, the deductibles more reasonable and the benefits better. Instead of paying premiums the alternative might be new taxes.
Employers would no longer buy insurance and *hopefully* employees would be paid more to compensate for the new taxes.
You have do do this with a consumption tax like a VAT tax exempting food, medicine, education and rent. You have to create a transfer tax on personal property like stocks, bonds and real estate -- a small tax 1% or 2% to capture non wage income also to pay for healthcare.
If you buy an expensive care your VAT is 15% or something ...
Subsidizing and supporting the incumbent insurance industry players is a farce.
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