Reddit mentions of Ensuring America's Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System

LOL, I'm not having trouble following anything; I know what I'm talking about, a position you must rarely find yourself in. Fewer regulations would lead to lower costs and more access. Look up CON laws, to start. Why can hospitals block other companies from opening competing services? Why should you have to see a doctor for every little thing, or to get any kind of medicine? PAs and NPs, etc., are cheaper. Why shouldn't you be able to form risk pools with whomever you want, or be able to buy a la carte style health insurance or alternative insurance plans? What if you could subscribe to a doctor group instead of buying insurance and still having to pay for all but the most serious of healthcare needs? Complying with insurance company and government paperwork costs doctors a lot in time and money when they have to hire people to take care of it, which in turn drives up costs for patients, and doesn't go away just because patient money is routed through the government first. This is all just a sampling of the surface scratchings of the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.

Teddy Roosevelt had a lot of bad ideas, so I don't know why you're invoking him.

And you ignore that the little amount of market forces we actually have in the healthcare sector in this country have led to more than half the world's medical patents being filed in the US, the best health outcomes overall, the most advanced healthcare equipment and greatest access to it, the best patient monitoring equipment and services, as well as the highest rated patient service. Not to mention the freedom to choose our own care plan rather than having it dictated to us.

You also might be surprised to find that universal coverage in other nations rarely means single payer.

You should try doing some research rather than just going with what feels right to you. Maybe read some varying sources from actual economists or historians