Can you cite one government program that has ever been eliminated in this manner? One?
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth" - Reagan
The bottom line is that State control of health care will be the back door by which the State will assert the "right" to control virtually everything else. No longer in just your light sockets, under the hood of your car, in the mud puddle in the driveway or your toilet tank, it will be in your refrigerator, your clothes closet, on your dinner plate, telling you what you can --or can't do in your spare time, regulating what job you can do, how you have to play.
Imagine the same people who eliminated tag and dodgeball for being too dangerous deciding if you can own a gun. Because the "public cost" of every activity or possession will be added up by bean counters thousands of miles away, averaged over a culturally diverse population, and used as an excuse to destroy Liberty wholesale.
Nothing short of removing that control or the means to implement it is enough if this is to be anywhere near a 'free' country.
Insisting that those who are responsible pick up the tab for drug addicts, AIDS victims and the like, who made personal decisions which led to their predicaments is just wrong. Using those expenses to inflate the cost of health care for everyone else is just wrong.
Let them bear the burden of their own actions and quit shifting the responsibility to pay for the irresponsible to those who have done it right. It wasn't 'just luck' that kept them from being drug addicts, it wasn't just 'luck' that kept them from catching terminal STDs, it was personal responsibility and morally upright behaviour. If we're going to get people from playing stupid games, we have to let them to collect the prizes--otherwise there will be no deterrent.
If people want to argue for the right of people to behave irresponsibly, they should accept that those who do should not be supported in those efforts by the rest of us at the cost of our own care.