When the Feds jumped into medical care, (I think it was around the time my high school buddy became a physician in the late 1970s early 1980s), it got to be really expensive.
One of the little free market realities to come to see the light of day is the Health Savings Account. That idea was dreamt up by a conservative think tank (the NCPA) and readily employed when more free market types had control of Congress and had the votes to slip it in.
I have an HSA and it is great to just whip out that edit card with my own money in it and pay for at least a portion of my own health care.
It is a measure of freedom.
To institute an Obama-lite medical insurance system will relegate the institution of other great ideas to oblivion.
Would you prefer total Federal control of medicine? Because that is where we are headed.
No, not at all.
But what I prefer is irrelevant.