Offering universal healthcare will always be a good way to get elected, but it makes no sense as a practical solution to health issues facing the nation. Before we embark on a plan which will somehow magically make affordable healthcare available to everyone, we should embark on a plan to get people to live in a healthy way. Universal healthcare is incompatible with a national attitude of slothful consumption and TV-fueled entertainment culture. Universal healthcare is incompatible with the average diet of this nation.
If the current administration succeeds in offering its national healthcare option the result will be disaster. It will fail its goals and impoverish the US on the same scale as the invasion of Iraq. I repeat, just because an idea makes people feel good does not make it a good idea.