If we take the "for profit" expense out of healthcare, our cost would be in line with the five other countries similar to US: Austria, Canada, GB, Germany, Switzerland, all now about 1/10th of GDP.
People have been claiming private beats public, and use the US Postal Service vs Fed Ex and UPS as examples. Guess which service Fed EX and UPS hands a package off to when it finds it too inefficient/expensive to deliver to some remote corner of our country?
Take an honest look at healthcare back when government wasn't involved. For-profit health care and health insurers (private companies) were in charge: rate increases were astronomical, those with pre-existing conditions couldn't get insurance, cost of medicines were through the roof, patients had to litigate/sue their providers to enforce their policies, people who were sick and didn't have insurance flooded emergency rooms, which many hospitals were shutting down... That's why the US per capita expense for medical care was/is more than 50% higher than any other country.
So if we are going to decide to return to that system, then the GOP should be honest and explain it that way...but they won't. They'll insist their plan is better, that their plan will be "doctor/patient centered" and other obfuscating slogans that will hide the real message that the average American won't benefit, many will lose their insurance, costs for insurance will be higher, crap/worthless policies will become the norm like before, medical decisions for you and me will be motivated by profit, the wealthy will no longer have to pay a higher tax rate, and the GOP will sell it like sliced bread and their followers will believe them until those who got real insurance through Obamacare get cut off...
The crux of the matter is "for profit". Top three healthcare insurance company CEO's annual salaries in 2015: Cigna, $17.3 Million; Aetna, $17.3 Million, United Health, $14.3 Million...
Salary for the US Secretary of Health and Human Services: $ 207,800/year