Government should have no role or full control.
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Over the last few weeks there has been a ton of debate nationwide over healthcare. With Republicans trying to repeal and replace Obamacare and Democrats attacking the new Trumpcare plan, there seems to be little agreement.
Things are no different at the Lake Powell Chronicle. Here at the office we have had several friendly debates over the state of healthcare in this country.
Through those discussions and through a lot of thinking, I have come to a conclusion. The healthcare industry, especially health insurance, needs one of two things from the federal government. The government needs to either get out of insurance completely or pass a single-payer plan where every person is taxed and everyone is 100 percent covered.
Anything else will be a failure.
As a conservative, my preference would be to have the federal government just get out of the picture. I personally think Congress should repeal Obamacare and take itself out of the insurance world. Completely. If Congress were to do that, open up competition nationwide instead of state to state, I believe it would do a couple of things.