Universal health coverage

Recently I saw two documentaries on the U.S. health care system and what it means for many Americans to be without coverage. Even if they feel really sick they cannot go and see a doctor because they cannot pay the fees. And some who go to "welfare" physicians and are diagnosed with cancer, then cannot afford the medication to treat their disease and will die prematurely.
For all the weaknesses of the health care systems of Germany and Spain, the ones I know by personal experience, I still prefer an imperfect public system with some waiting lists but everybody insured to an excellent one for the priviliged majority that excludes about 16% of the population (like the one in the USA).
Both documentaries stressed the enormous power of the health care lobbies in D.C. that prevent improvements such as cuts in drug prices for U.S. patients who are likely to pay six times as much for their medication as Canadians or Europeans do for the same products.
It will be interesting to see if and how the new President will find a solution to this while he has to struggle with the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.