I never said it would be easy politically. Healthcare is a morass with a huge number of entrenched and entangled interests. And the dark side of reducing its ab

I never said it would be easy politically. Healthcare is a morass with a huge number of entrenched and entangled interests. And the dark side of reducing its absurd costs is that much of the reason for the high price is a bunch of pretty unnecessary high paying jobs involved that largely exist to deal with the system's complexity. And while most people can cheer for lower healthcare cost, they might have a harder time cheering for putting all the people out of work. Worse, it's an industry that employs lots of people in every locality. So it's politically very difficult to tackle. I don't think this would be that terrible for Medicare patients, though. Doctors who were fully covered by Medicare would make it known far and wide, and those who didn't but have large numbers of Medicare patients would see large drops in their patient load.