I'm going to have to disagree with your second part. Yes the reason that healthcare is a mess is because the government is involved, but not because they need to be more involved.
1. Tax structure that makes a market place for insurance impossible.
2. Medicare reimbursement system, it's method of calculating costs is seriously flawed.
3. The inability to buy insurance across state lines.
4. The inability to sign a contract with your doctor, i.e. waive/limit liability.
5. Massive amounts of regulation and red tape that must be complied with.
6. The strangle hold the AMA has on the production of doctors, granted by the government.
and those are just a few of the major problems.
What we have today and these future proposals are all forms of regulatory capture -- i.e. influencing and controlling those who make the rules. Every time you see a new standard or regulation it can probably be assumed that it's being proposed to cement the position of vested interests.
It's also what we see today in the healthcare mess: private insurers buying off politicians and blocking any real progress.