Healthcare, like everything else in life, is finite. Even with the best healthcare available, people die.

IMO, the question is not should we get healthcare, the question is WHO makes the decisions on what healthcare you get. Today, that decision is made by YOU and/or your EMPLOYER when the insurance company and coverage is chosen, followed by YOU when you decide what you can afford to pay above what is paid for by your insurance coverage.

The way I see government provided or regulated healthcare, is we are moving those choices from YOU and YOUR employer to the GOVERNMENT, which means some unelected, bureaucratic agency. The GOV is not better or worse than an INS company. The GOV will answer to the voters as the INS company will answer to the share holders. At least theoretically, I can change INS companies. It seems as if I am stuck with the GOV for at least another two or four years.