Folks the best and the brightest in our country are able to send a rocket to Mars with a remote control car, drive around examining rocks, and then send back the pictures. Figuring out the algorithms to cost effectively provide universal health care to all Americans is doable. In fact it would be a walk in the park compared to fighting and winning 2 world wars, creating the atom bomb, going to the moon, and maintaining peace and stability in the world for the past 60 years.
I've read the majority of posts on this board pertaining to Obamacare. Please don't fall into the Coke vs Pepsi mindset that Democrats or Republicans are going to solve our problems. That train doesn't go there. Americans solve the problems when they collectively say fuck the consequences, what we are doing isn't working, and we don't care who gets the credit as long as the problem is solved.
The notion of insurance is a smoke and mirrors shell game that has no reason to be part and parcel of life and death situations. Insurance companies are just like casinos and in the end the house always wins. Go back to our preamble and examine the ethos of all that is true American, examine those 'self evident' truths. I trust you won't find anything about making money off the sure bet that all beings get sick and die. You will find something about our creator saying we have a right, but not just a right, an unalienable right (not transferable) to life!!