This is NOT that complicated. In fact, it is econ 101.
The problem with healthcare is that it costs too much. All other problems flow from that. The statist thug asks "who are we going to beat the money out of to pay for it?" But the rational observer asks WHY does it cost too much? Let's answer the rational question:
In the absence of direct government price controls, prices emerge from the interplay of supply and demand. All other things remaining the same, if demand goes up, price goes up. All other things being equal, if supply goes down, price goes up. So, if we are trying to sleuth out the cause of high health care prices, econ 101 suggests that we look for things that either boost demand or curtail supply. What do we find? Surprise! At every turn government intervention boosts demand and curtails supply. Let's just do a brief survey.
1. Government licensing and permitting schemes pinch the supply of health care goods and services. You virtually cannot fart in a white coat without government permission. Every single medical product - drug, machine, protcol, clinic, hospital, ambulance, drug etc. must have prior government approval, including lengthy, expensive trials and prove-ups. Every single health care provider must have government approval, including mandatory lengthy, expensive education (at institutions that are government controlled). Government dramatically restricts the supply of health care goods and services - more than any other single industry I can think of.
2. Having dramatically restricted the supply of health care, government then gooses the demand in two major ways. Government provides huge subsidies at every level through direct payments for health care via medicare, medicade, VA, and a plethora of state programs. Government also uses the tax code and other means to push businesses into providing health care as an employment benefit. Having a third party pay most of a person's health care costs, whether by government subsidy or "insurance" dramatically boosts demand.
So with one hand Government crushes the supply lines and with the other hand it stimulates the demand. And prices go through the roof.
This is not some wild theory. This is basic economics. Health care prices are high because government drove them up. And now, having ruined the market health care system, government holds itself out as the solution.
Advocating a complete government take over of health care because the system is broken is like a woman saying "Well, he already raped me, I might as well marry him and raise a family."
Accepting more government intervention in health care is based on pure economic ignorance combined with a shocking readiness to use the point of a gun against your neighbor because aspirin is too expensive.
