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Have you considered the cost spiral implications that government involvement in healthcare entails. Costs in this country are high because of government involvement, not as a result of lack of involvement.
Tax-emept health savings accounds, tax-exempt employee health plans, and various other government subsidies distort the market and drive costs out of control.
There is no particular reason health insurance has to be tied to your employeer or be some special thing. It could be provided for in the same way life insurance or home insurance is.
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High government involvement doesn't seem to be a problem in other countries that use a single-payer model. Those countries pay significantly less per capita than those of us in the United States. This doesn't exactly equate to better performance. The World Health Organization ranked the performance of the US system
37th out of 191 countries. In other words, we're paying for single-payer healthcare but we're not getting it.
Here's another article I found that addresses the usual (conservative) arguments against a single-payer system:
Myths and Memes About Single-Payer Health Insurance in the United States: A Rebuttal to Conservative Claims