The health care system could use other changes. How about smaller places treat basic illnesses and wounds, you do not need a doctor for? This can keep the prices down. You don't a trained physician for it, but someone you can give basic training to. Many Conservatives, (and possibly some Communists, if there are any left) may hate me for this, but I stealing the idea of the Barefoot Doctor in China.
We know how expensive major medical equipment is. You know, you are not going to get it in rural areas, there is not enough of a population base. Set it up though, where the doctors are the big guns you reserve for where it is needed.