What do you mean "return to an NHS model"? The US never had anything of the sort.
To answer your question: Ban employers from paying for health insurance as a benefit. If individuals see directly how much it costs, that will put much more pressure on prices. And employees don't have to worry about losing their insurance if they lose their job.
Some other gradual options:
- end the AMA licensure monopoly, making doctors more plentiful lowers prices and increases quality
- reform the FDA approval process to make developing drugs and equipment cheaper
- cover preexisting conditions under Medicaid instead of forcing private insurers to
> end the AMA licensure monopoly, making doctors more plentiful lowers prices and increases quality
I see how this would lower prices, but it's not clear how this would increase quality. Naively I would suspect it would, at least initially, lower average quality.
Medical professionals in general are stretched thin. They all have too many patients. More doctors each with fewer patients would lead to better quality.
To answer your question: Ban employers from paying for health insurance as a benefit. If individuals see directly how much it costs, that will put much more pressure on prices. And employees don't have to worry about losing their insurance if they lose their job.
Some other gradual options:
- end the AMA licensure monopoly, making doctors more plentiful lowers prices and increases quality
- reform the FDA approval process to make developing drugs and equipment cheaper
- cover preexisting conditions under Medicaid instead of forcing private insurers to