So why not reform the whole system? Where's the President Trump's plan to ameliorate the situation?
The president shouldn't have to have a plan. In fact, government should keep its sticky fingers out of health care and health insurance. As we have seen, when congress and Obama shoved Obamacare down our throats, it made our health care and its affordability worse. Do you really think the situation will get any better if we have medicare for all.
Government-run health care isn't really about health care. it's about government control over our very lives. Government in effect decides who lives and who dies. In Canada and the UK, there are waiting lists for treatment. Some people, especially the elderly, are rejected for treatment entirely because they are too old or whatever and some government bureaucrat or bureaucrats decided these patients are not worth spending money on to treat. When you surrender your health care decisions to the government, you are giving it the power to decide whether you should live or die.
I once worked with a woman from England. Her parents and siblings still live there. One day she was in the ladies room crying, so I asked her what was wrong. She explained her father desperately needed heart surgery, but he had been put on a waiting list and wasn't moving up. Meanwhile, he was getting weaker and my coworker was afraid he was going to die before he could get the surgery. Not sure how, but my colleague and her husband were eventually able to bring the father to the US for surgery and last I heard he was doing well. But most patients in the UK who are using the government health system aren't so lucky.
And you should look at Cuba. Years ago, Cuba was reputed to have one of the best health care systems in the world. Now after decades of government control, the health care system is a mess. I was reading a few years ago that antibiotics were in short supply. Something is wrong with your health care system if you can't get antibiotics. This sort of thing is what happens when government gets involved in health care. Health care turns into *bleep*.
It's bad enough that my insurance dictates that I have to use a particular diabetes med that doesn't work instead of one that does. I don't want some federal bean counter making decisions on my health care.