The problem is that a huge chunk of the money we're spending on health care is not going to pay for health care. It's going to pay for corporate profits, lobbyists, dividends to share holders, obscene executive salaries and bonuses, and other non-health care related expenses.

Just think of how many lives could be saved if all of that money was going toward providing people with needed care instead of lining the pockets of greedy people. (The answer is many tens of thousands, and certainly a hell of a lot more than the number of people killed on 9/11, for which we have fought two wars and are still paying through the nose).