I liked this viewer comment from the first link Azizi gave in her initial posting: ...health care should be funded the same way police and firefighters are.

Imo, EVERYONE should listen to an interview of T.R. Reid, on FRESH AIR. IT was just on, yesterday. Here's a bit about it:

Journalist and author T.R. Reid set out on a global tour of hospitals and doctors' offices, all in the hopes of understanding how other industrialized nations provide affordable, effective universal health care. The result: his book The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.