I think it is necesary to think about what society do you want? What keeps it healthy and functional? Health care is vital to the economy, not only the cost of it, but the need for a healthy society so that families are strong and function, business are strong because employees can function. If the market works well then this shows up in competitive prices, good health care. America has expensive health care and lower health results than other developed countries. something is wrong and the market is not working right. Therefore it has to be corrected. Is the health market correcting itself, not in the past 50 years. Then someone has to ensure that it does correct itself, hence government intervention.To do what, make sure it is affordable, available for all, and of quality. How do you do it - introduce competition - public option, remove the exemption from anti-trust requirements, stop discrimination against certain groups; stop dropping coverage for pre-exisiting conditions or emergent conditions; control costs. Based on that what has Obama done, some, not all. What about costs, controlling spiralling profits while reducing coverage, makes costs worse. Find abuses, find duplications, find efficiencies, then true costs are obvious, then as a country decide what you can and cannot afford. Your status quo does not make intelligent sense
