I feel like a way to accomplish it must be found. A huge part of the problem with medical costs in this country is that we've allowed it to be a capitalistic endeavor. There are many things that should be allowed to have competitive, capitalistic markets, peoples basic well-being should not be one of them. I realize this is more of a moral stance than a practical one, but so many other countries have found a way. We can too.

I am a Canadian and like 99.9% of Canadians I love it.

Im not really against or for any form of healthcare, mostly because i don't know enough about it to give a proper opinion

I’m a liberal, a Bernie Sanders supporter, I think that universal healthcare is simply the only moral approach to providing healthcare. It is also the only fiscally prudent method, this is demonstrated extreme inflation in medical costs, and pharmaceuticals. The conservatives love to try and scare people by telling them that their taxes will go up, which they will, what they don’t say is that you won’t have to pay for high priced insurance. Also, the companies that have to share the cost of expensive insurance won’t have to bear that burden. Many companies keep a great deal of their employee’s part time to avoid having to pay benefits which are primarily health insurance. Having universal healthcare will relieve that burden and allow then to make people full time workers. A great deal of the cost savings of universal healthcare lie in the fact that multi-billion for profit health insurance companies will be eliminated.

Pretty much sums it up for me. [usdebtclock.org]

First, because it is tax money, we know the government does not care how much it costs nor does it care how good the service is. Second, because we are all FORCED to pay, it violates personal choice. I am in favor of a a voluntary catastrophic insurance system we could pay into to cover the extreme life threatening events. Ultimately, health care is a service offered by multiple providers and they each can choose to offer the services at different price points. If we were free to choose, the cost would come down. One other point, tort reform would go a long way toward lowering health care costs by capping malpractice payouts and reducing how much of the payout the lawyers would get.