Health Care Brainstorm

Health care in this country is in an alarming state of affairs. Millions upon millions of people are without some form of health care. Either they can't afford it through their employer, they get turned down by "guaranteed" organizations like Medicare or Medicaid, or they are simply unemployed. Health care costs from other independent companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee are even too high in most cases. Television is littered badly with commercials about inexpensive life insurance for people 50 to 85. Two major problems with that; the first problem is that you are excluded if you are younger than 50 and older than 85. The second major concern being that life insurance is ONLY helpful if you die!
If someone has health insurance, doctor visits and prescription costs are lowered, but if you are unlucky enough to have no health coverage, lower to middle income families and individuals can barely cover the cost of the doctor visit, let alont the cost of any outrageously overpriced prescriptions you might need to become well again. It is a vicious cycle: You can't go to work because you are sick, and you can't pay for the medication you need to get well because you can't go to work.
This country is well in a position to STOP all of these problems by providing free health care across the board to everyone. The only thing stopping the U.S. from doing so is its own capitalistic greed. Insurance companies want to get paid. Pharmaceutical companies want to get paid. Doctors want to get paid. With everyone wanting to get their slice of the pie, no one seems to give a damn about those who are sick and dying simply because they don't have enough money to get the care they need.
Then, there are the unemployed. The poor and middle class that are employed can at least maybe pay for a doctor visit, but the unemployed can not even pay for that. And it is a very good bet that they are not getting the prescriptions they need to take care of themselves. Damn shame this country can't provide free health care.