The way will then be open for those on the right and - it is worth emphasising - left of health policy who believe the funding model cannot cope, and that a form of social insurance, French, Swiss or German style, is necessary to meet the burgeoning demand for healthcare.
To bolster his contrarian argument, he points out that an officially appointed committee of experts has just recommended that his state scrap the fee-for-service model of reimbursement, which many economists believe is at the heart of America's health-inflation problem.