Given that 60-70% of healthcare is already provided by the government (depending what state you're in) from programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, ACA subsidies, the VA, and federal employee health plans, it'd be hard to imagine a feee market existing.
Layer the regulations at every level of providing healthcare, and it's very hard to imagine any health related transaction happening without government approval.
One can also consider that of the remainder 55% or so is supplied through employers. I have the minority opinion that there isn't that much difference between 'the government' and 'huge corporation'. Evidence is a claim I read from someone that handled heath insurance for a fortune 500 corp. Large corporations don't actually buy health insurance, they pay insurance companies to handle claims. Key difference.
So remove the 65% of healthcare paid for by the government. And then 20% that is mostly corporate self-insurance, and you have 15% left over that is nothing but a poo bucket filled with market failure.
All insurance is regulated to varying degrees. The core idea of insurance doesn't lend itself well to unregulated free market competition. You can apply regulations to control the market and have it accessible to everyone, or you can leave it unregulated and use your tax payer base to pick up "the slack". Short of society becoming callously uncompassionate, this (health care reform debate) seems more like an argument of which accounting column it should fall in too.
The current administration and its enablers in Congress are actively dedicated to the dismantlement of the Federal government. They know these proposals aren't going to work and are just going through the motions while they consolidate power. The sooner people wake up to this fact the better.
If they are trying to dismantle the Federal government, that can't properly be described as consolidating power. A dismantlement of the federal government would be distribution of power back to states, localities, or individuals.
Or large organizations called corporations - though one might argue to include them with "individuals", I think they are sufficiently different, and wield enough power that they should be accounted for separately.
Conservatives have a pretty good grip on a lot of state governments, and it's a lot easier to do things at the state level than at the federal. Sorry for not making that clearer.
Conservatives think that health care should be purchased by individuals like an automobile or a refrigerator. You should be free to get it or not, including insurance. And if you don't have the money to buy it, then it's your fault because you didn't work hard enough.
Layer the regulations at every level of providing healthcare, and it's very hard to imagine any health related transaction happening without government approval.