How about affordable HEALTHCARE?
Either way, as long as the government is handling it we will get neither.
There is a difference between government running healthcare FINANCING, and the government regulating it. The former is single payer, and perhaps something we may want to avoid. Sensible, market-centric regulation is the best way to avoid it.
The GOP bill deserves support not because it uproots an entitlement and stomps it to death, as viscerally satisfying as that may be to those who think only others will be affected by it. It deserves support because it represents a big step in the direction of better, more market-centric regulation of a complex subject that affects all of us. You think healthcare financing is easy? What the GOP bills do is allow a change in philosophy toward consumer choice, and the concomitant increase in consumer responsibility that comes with it. It's the latter that liberals simply don't trust the people with.