Man this scares the shit out of me...and yes health care is a fucked little world.
In America.
We might ask ourselves what every other industrialized nation on earth does differently that makes them consistently ranked better than us in Health Care.
There are a lot of options:
Medicare-for-all(similar to single-payer in Canada, the pay rates problem would have to be fixed but this one makes the most sense
Major-government-regulations on private insurance(which is what countries like Switzerland do)
All-payer systems.
All of these choices are regarded the world over as much more humane, much better for everyone besides the ultra rich, but none of them is even being seriously proposed at this point.
What instead is being offered is basically a giant gift to the insurance companies in the form of a requirement that every american buy private insurance, while imposing very little serious reforms or cost savings.
Meanwhile people are yelling about socialism and death panels.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.