The twin insurance problems of 'moral hazard' and 'adverse selection'. I say end this stuff as fast as possible. Wean people off. Avoid a backlash that says 'Single Payer'.
It's ironic that the idiot left wants "single payer" for the peons (not for themselves, of course) whose sweat, hard work and efforts pay their rather cushy and substantial salaries. US veterans are and have been on what constitutes "single payer" healthcare and it is, quite frankly, CRAP (to borrow Coulter's descriptive adjective).
Congress exempted themselves from the wonderful effects of ObamaCare...aka the ""Affordable"" Care Act, claiming that neither they nor their staff could afford it (we're talking three figure salaries and up here). Yet these same aholes couldn't care LESS that most Americans, who do not make three-figure salaries, couldn't afford it either. This ObamaCare travesty was just another leftist redistribution of wealth and embedded socialism (communism w/a smiley face) scheme and long-lusted after moist-dream.
I say focus on elimination of government jobs, government waste, fraud, etc., and use the money saved from that to help those that really do need the help by expanding Medicaid to include anyone that can't pay. I would also use the money saved to up the care of all US veterans from what they have now, which isn't much.
Instead.... the government aholes would no doubt take any money saved from eliminating fraud and waste and just spend it on more pork and feel-good programs. So obviously, the problem really is the government aholes that think this way. Right? And they are embedded in every nook and cranny of US government now.