There are more possible health care systems than the NHS and the worst of all worlds disaster that is US healthcare. I know British people love the NHS but I don't think the US should copy it given its bad outcomes and constant issues with Tories underfunding it (as if the "deficit hawk" wing of the Republicans that is currently blocking the debt ceiling increase wouldn't do the same thing to an American NHS).

I think any kind of reform to US health care is going to require a substantial role for the market (ideally without coverage networks, deductibles or those insurance company death panels that refuse to pay for care that a doctor considers medically necessary) and probably an expanded role for Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP. There should probably also be a single payer malpractice insurance program so that doctors can start private practices again, a federal law requiring safe staffing ratios for nurses (maybe tying this to Medicare funds?) and antitrust action to break up hospital monopolies. Addressing college costs and cancelling all student loan debt would also help as many doctors are still repaying their med school loans decades after graduation.