Mr. Granger: You are ever-so-right.  Our health care system could be called a "joke" were it not so tragic.  We have the most expensive and the least effective health care system in the "industrialized" world.  We've developed a system based, not on concern for the treatment of the ill, but on maximizing the profits for those institutions and individuals we foolishly trust to provide that care.  

As Motley points out below, the vested interests protecting our current system are overwhelmingly strong and firmly entrenched.  As President Obama learned early in his presidency, developing a "single payer" system is nigh impossible.  Unfortunately, he settled for a "compromise" Obamacare system which still has insurance companies at its core.  

It will require a "grass-roots revolution" to overcome the stanglehold those vested interests have on our healthcare system....any, yes, it's time for that revolution creating a single-payer system.  regards, Gary