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In your article, you, like all the media types, talk about "national health care plan". As far as I can tell, no one is proposing any such a thing. They are proposing a national health insurance plan which isn't the same thing at all.
If something useful, like a national health care plan were being proposed, you'd see government funded clinics popping up all over where you could go for medical attention and your entree to these locations would be a paid income tax receipt. But no, they will want you to purchase insurance (weather or not you can afford it if Three Names has her way), then you will doubtless have to endure all the bullshit associated with private health insurance and be faced with exclusions, deductibles, and co-pays. All this paperwork and crap is expensive, by the way, and guess who ultimately pays for it. I'm old enough to remember doctor's offices as the doctor and a nurse who doubled as receptionist. Now that office will have one to three admin types who do nothing but handle the paperwork. That does wonders for your overhead.
And, if you rail against big Pharma, just wait 'till you get to big insurance (hint: if you think the government is going to run this insurance program, you're a fool).