I read this thread with growing consternation.
From a European viewpoint a universal health insurance seems an absolute necessity.
How you do it is really a question, you will not be able to solve in a thread - and it seems outright ridiculous to blame Obama for its actual form, as the politicians seemed to have argued just like this thread with extreme examples which prove nothing and are utterly unhelpful to actually find a way.
Somebody even went so far as to say (quoted from memory, as i cannot find it anymore) "..the reason we lost" EXCUSE me, who is we? I am Swiss, and as far as the american vote concerns me, I have won ;-)
But I still wish us all well, as health care is just a unsolvable problem: Just lets stop growing old!