The real problem here in the US is how the health care industry GOUGES everyone they can no matter what, an individual, an insurance company even better cause they have deeper pockets. Something has to be done, those fucks are WAY overpaid, its a huge fucking racket. There needs to be some control of that and you can bet they will not do it themselves. This is not like buying some optional product or service you don't really need it.
From what I can tell Obama is not just gonna give the health care away but form a group plan, similar to what people who are employed can get. So they can get group type rates and make it much more affordable to everyone, especially the people down on their luck and like it or believe it or not there are many good, hard working people who cant get work right now. Not everybody has to participate