How to pay for it is just as easy, lease out the off shore and ANWAR rights to oil companies and take part of the revenue (like a private land owner would) and not only would it pay for insurance, it would lower the HELL out of gas prices, end dependence on Arab oil and would be a boom in the US economy.
The Left likes to point out that Government spending during WWII ended the depression, but what they miss is that FDR didn't go create tank, aircraft and munitions companies, they became customers. 0bama and the left want to create State companies because they love socialism.
"'The current system with over 1,000 insurers in this country, is perfectly capable adequate to provide choice to people in America,' Romney said."