Health Care System Options for the United States

[DC Al Fine]

There is also the out-of-pocket model, but that is essentially what we had before the ACA, and I am assuming no one in their right minds really want to go back to that.  Hence, I did not include it as an option.  

We have libertarians, right-liberals etc. No sense keeping an option off the ballot because you find it disagreeable.

Bismarck option for me. While I'm ok with the Canadian model, I still think the healthcare consumer should have some (direct) skin in the game. I'd rather the Bismarck model with subsidized out of pocket premiums.

[DC Al Fine]

Would prices or just supply fall if providers were simply  expecting to be paid like a grocery store? I'd imagine it could work for everything else if all emergencies were covered. No questions asked. I saw that in Atlantic once. Where the government would cover all emergencies but routine stuff would be bought like anything else. However chronic things leave unconvinced of liberal solutions.

Presumably the patient would have to pay (either through private insurance or out of pocket) for the first treatment(s), until it was determined their condition is chronic. The awkward thing would be determining what counts as "chronic".

For that reason, I'd prefer something like Obamacare, except without the link between insurance and employment.