The Simple Solution

Why don't we look at healthcare like we look at driving insurance?
Just require all adults to purchase health insurance like all drivers must have car insurance.

Let the states define what "minimum coverage" is, and focus the rest of your energy on legislation to reign in the exorbitant fees doctors, hospitals, health equipment manufacturers, and pharm companies charge.  Really, this is the problem with healthcare now, not the lack of universal coverage.

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Sure, there are evil capitalists in top hats sporting gold watches on chains and monocles who regularly throw orphans out in the snow so they can afford a few more ivory, blood diamond and baby seal fur trinkets. However the 20th century has shown that socialisation doesn't result in the happer worker's paradise advertised, I'm not saying it's a slippery slope and we'll end up with hardcore Stalinism but there are certainly inherant problems with relying on bureaucracy and quotas to organise our healthcare. Most democrats are not leftist wingnut Obama fanatics who think Cuba is a socialist utopia, they are educated moderates who actually care about the practical implications of his policies and fully understand the limitations of these 19th century abstract political theories, sorry but Obama will never get this to pass unless he addresses these issues.

I favor a healthcare plan based on reforming regulation over banana-republicesque nationalisation, hospitals and doctor's practices need autonomy to function properly and serve their community's needs, this arrangement is also needed to seperate hospital management from political management thus lowering corruption and increasing efficiency by allowing specialisation. A similiar arrangement is characteristic of succesful small wealthy 1st world nations like Ireland, Belgium and Singapore which generally distinguish the roles of the state from the roles of the free market more rationally.