rl2

Well, you can have a purportedly democratic government making the decisions about health care (if we can get the right people elected and gain control over it from the special interests) or you can have private, for profit corporations making the decisions about who to cover and what to pay for, which is what we have, which is an abomination both in terms of cost (the extra administrative costs, we would drive down costs and be able to provide more care and more treatments if we had a single payer system and we weren't sinking so much of our money into supporting the insurance companies), now the insurance companies make the decisions about what they will cover, and who they will cover.
We see how well allowing for profit, large corporations running things have done for us - the financial companies have driven us into the ground (which is why we don't have money) - that mess was caused by a lack of government regulation, not too much of it - and you think that is a good model for health care?
In these discussions, some people tend to forget that the government is us, or it should be, if we bother to elect the right people pursuing policies for our common good.
The government is responsible for providing for the common good - without it, we wouldn't have public schools (we could have a more ignorant population than we have now) - should only people with children pay to educate their children? What about roads, public transportation, and our military defense? (another big ticket item no one on the antigovernment side ever seems to complain about).
The government is involved in our food policies, supporting certain agricultural decisions and industries, what we grow, what we eat (meat and dairy in amounts that historically human beings have never eaten), if those policies were less tilted toward the corporate interests, perhaps we too would eat a healthier diet and be less sick as a country.
I think we need more government control - including us having more control over our government, and electing real representatives, not the millionaires who are currently inhabiting Congress.