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Couple of things..Well I try to stay away from absolutes, because one never really knows until a situation is reached. But if you ask the base question as to whether or not government could be used as an aggregate system to provide healthcare and in doing so can provides greater access for less money; the answer is yes. In fact, this is one of the things government does well, much better than private industry. It can aggregate large systems and it can do so on long time scales. So it is indeed possible to gain greater access to healthcare while paying less overall by using government. And if we set a system up like that, then I would pay attention to it and the details. An intelligent system would be one that did exactly this. It's set up for the People, it serves the People well, it functions properly (not like our VA hospitals), it saves us money and allows us to heal our citizens on reasonable time scales. This is possible to do with government, but it's not easy and it will take work to maintain (much like the Republic in general).
But since the answer is yes, I remain open to the possibilities. It would be great to pay less and have more access to healthcare.
How do you square that with libertarianism, and is it ok to lie to get to the ends?